On June 20, a 50-member team led by NGO Asas de Socorro and Rede Reviva walked about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) along the ...

Researchers have created self-destructing living plastic that uses engineered bacteria to completely break itself down when ...

Scientist Cassandra Rauert, who built a plastics-free lab to study human exposure, on the challenges for researchers—and ...

"We don't see these chemicals, but they are still going into our soil." ...

Microplastics have already been detected in the food supply, in drinking water, and in the air people breathe. Now, ...

A closeup of gray and russet dots of microplastic on a round steel filtration screen. Microplastics on a filtration membrane at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in 2021. Accurate measurement ...

A supplement comprised of dead bacteria seems to remove microplastics, and prevent their absorption into cells, by attracting ...

You're probably inhaling microplastics every day, but that does not necessarily mean the threat is as immediate or severe as ...

Plastic pollution and drug-resistant infections are usually regarded as separate global crises. But emerging research ...

There are multiple ways to extract microplastics for analysis, mostly using density separation. I tried a technique called Oil Extraction Process. Because most plastics are Oleophilic ("oil-loving"), ...

Moringa seeds remove 98% of microplastics from water. See how this ancient plant could revolutionize modern water treatment.

Microplastics and nanoplastics are small plastic particles, invisible to the naked eye, that come from the degradation of plastics. They’re now found in everything from marine life to soil. And the ...