Those fleece sweaters in your washing machine may be doing more than clogging the lint trap—they could be slowing down your ...

Plastic and microplastic pollution has become a defining environmental concern of our time; headlines warn that these invisible particles might be infiltrating our food and drink. But how much of this ...

Researchers observed that the plants grown with microplastics were 11 percent less likely to emerge from the soil, were smaller in size and were several days slower to produce flowers or ripen. The ...

The UK government must urgently draw up a comprehensive national strategy to tackle microplastic pollution or risk falling further behind international efforts to address one of the most pervasive ...

LANSING, MI — The state of Michigan began testing a random assortment of rivers and streams for microplastics this year. Data from the first sampling round is being analyzed and quality-checked, but ...