The compound that gives fruits, vegetables, and flowers their color counteracts the toxicity of microplastics, a new study ...

Data from microplastic analyses can inform health recommendations and policy decisions. Machine learning is one tool ...

A new effort to ban the use of plastic bags has begun in the state Legislature. Rep. Maureen Madden, D-Tannersville, along with fellow Democrat Reps. Tarik Khan, Mandy Steele and Greg Scott, are ...

Learn about the source of airborne microplastics, which were not, for the most part, introduced into the air by the ocean, as ...

A board of scientists has proposed a system to monitor microplastics in the Great Lakes. Currently, there’s no coordinated ...

Microplastics are everywhere. Meanwhile, colorectal cancer rates are rising in young adults. Could there be a connection?

The SEC declined to back a Goodyear effort to toss a shareholder proposal urging the tiremaker to pursue microplastics ...

"Allowing a suit of this type to proceed on this basis would basically open the door to enabling any purchaser of any ...

How tiny plastic particles enter the atmosphere is an important question, as airborne microplastics are a potential health ...

Many in the St. Petersburg community thought the paper vs. plastic straw debate ended in 2018, because that’s when the city ...

Microplastics—the tiny particles of plastic shed when litter breaks down—are everywhere, from the deep sea to Mount Everest, ...

New research has come out on how people can decrease the amount of microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) they drink and eat.