Scientists detect hidden plastic clouds hovering over Chinese cities - Previous studies have underestimated amount of plastic ...

A research team led by the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna has investigated a possible link between ...

Over the last 20 years, scientists have come to recognize microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) as a growing form of ...

Oceans absorb about a quarter of the carbon dioxide released by human activity every year, slowing the pace of global warming ...

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink ...

Microplastics could be disrupting how oceans absorb and store carbon, potentially undermining a natural buffer that helps ...

The comfort of your home kitchen might feel like one of the safest places to prepare a healthy meal. You're chopping ...

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses ...

Over the past two decades, microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) have been recognized as emerging pollutants, detected ...

Scientists studying how tiny particles of plastic affect our everyday lives say that the amount of nanoplastics found in bottled water is between 10 to 100 times higher than researchers had previously ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of ...

UBC Okanagan researchers have created a new two-layer membrane filtration system that can significantly reduce the amount of ...