The findings show that bottled water could contain up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously estimated, as earlier studies only accounted for microplastics, or pieces between 1 and ...

A couple of years ago, Nathalie Tufenkji stopped by a Montreal cafe on her way to work and ordered a cup of tea. She sat down with her mug, enjoying its warmth, before she noticed something ...

Plastic is the vile blackguard that sits on the lip of the planet, throttles the lungs of its green patches ... it fragments into zillions of tiny-tiny particles that scatter and spread like ...

There's a good chance a dose of tiny plastic particles has taken up residence in your gut, a new, small study argues. Microplastics, as they are called, were found in stool samples from a handful ...

Over time, plastic breaks down into micro- and nanoparticles that are invisible to the naked eye. Researchers at Lund University have investigated how these small plastic particles affect ...

Tiny particles of plastic pollution could be finding their way deep into our lungs with every breath we take, new research reveals. Known as microplastics or nanoplastics, a study from the ...

As the name implies, microplastics are small particles of plastic found in the vast majority of our food and water supply. Drinking from plastic bottles increases blood pressure due to ...

"This comparison arose from findings suggesting humans ingest approximately 0.1 [to] 5g of plastic particles per week from a variety of exposure sources," Walker explained. "The original findings ...

Plants can absorb micro- and nanoplastics in their stems and roots, raising concerns about how natural ecosystems cope when plastic particles invade ... The power of green: Harnessing phytoremediation ...

"They certainly don't want green ... Millions of tons of plastic water and soft drink bottles wind up waterways, lakes or oceans every year. There it breaks up into tiny particles called ...