Microplastics have emerged as a major environmental challenge due to their minute size, persistence, and toxicity. These tiny ...

Wurm. "This makes them a promising, microplastic-free carrier system for crop protection agents and highlights their ...

a professor specializing in environmental and natural resource science at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, showed that samples of wastewater in Tokyo contained 420 microplastic ...

New research reveals significant microplastic contamination in commonly consumed seafood, including finfish and crustaceans. Portland State University scientists discovered these particles in six ...

4 Once in aquatic ecosystems, microplastics tend to remain and accumulate, resulting in a growing pervasiveness and steady increase in microplastic concentrations across the world’s rivers, lakes, and ...

French researchers have found microplastics in more than three-quarters of agricultural soil samples tested across the country, raising fresh concerns about plastic pollution beyond the oceans. While ...

Tiny fragments found in the environment are increasing the rate of genetic transfer between bacteria 200-fold, Oxford ...

Three percent of the larval fish caught for a 2017 study by researchers at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the University of Plymouth had eaten microplastic fibers. PHOTOGRAPHED AT MARINE ...

Microplastics fill the air, water, and our bodies — but experts are still learning more about the particles’ effects on humans ...