High blood pressure, diabetes and stroke rates are higher in coastal or lakefront areas with greater concentrations of ...

Boiling water before drinking it could be "a viable long-term strategy" for reducing global exposure to microplastics, ...

A new study suggests that you could be ingesting thousands of microplastics every time you chew gum. This discovery comes ...

Statistics show if that if you're not filtering your water the right way, your family is likely consuming microplastics. An overwhelming 94% of U.S. tap water is contaminated with fragments of plastic ...

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...

New research reveals that PET-based glitter microplastics can actively influence biomineralization processes in marine ...

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...

CLEANR, a company started on the campuse of Case Western Reserve University, has created a filter that hooks up to washing ...

Microplastics appear to be present in filtered solutions used for medical intravenous infusions, with about 7,500 particles/L found in infusion solutions from polypropylene (PP) bottles filtered to ...

While scientists haven’t figured out how to un-plastic ourselves yet, you can dodge some of these sneaky invaders.

University of Manchester scientists have discovered significant concentrations of microplastics in the male reproductive ...

Researchers found that chomping on a single stick of chewing gum can release up to thousands of shards of microplastics.