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

The elective medical industry is cashing in on plastic pollution fears, but the evidence of harm from microplastics is still ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Make a few easy changes in your kitchen to help cut down on microplastic exposure — here's how to get started.

People who chew around 180 pieces of gum a year could be ingesting roughly 30,000 microplastics, the researchers said.

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

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