These tiny shards have turned up everywhere from the depths of the ocean to the top of Mount Everest to the human body.

People who meet their recommended water intake through tap water ingest an additional 4,000 plastic particles annually, while those who drink only bottled water ingest an additional 90,000 ...

It is well known that we eat, drink and breathe billions of invisibly small particles of plastic every day. Still, until now, scientists have not known whether these micro- and nanoplastics move ...

"We just don't know" how the plastic particles affect the brain, study leader Matthew Campen of the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy said in a statement. They might be obstructing ...

A groundbreaking new study shows how the presence of these tiny plastic particles in arteries likely affects your health—and may increase your risk of death Microplastics are turning up ...

The plastic doesn’t remain lodged in the digestive organs; the tiniest particles pass through the stomach into other tissues, according to Luis Medina Faull, a fellow at the marine sciences ...

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 ...

But analysis of the data from an expedition in spring 2021 shows that environmental pollution from these tiny plastic particles is a bigger problem in the remote Weddell Sea than was previously known.

A study out of Hawaii has shown that tissues sampled [recently] had significantly higher concentrations of plastic particles in them than the tissues from just 10 years ago. So while it might not ...

If and when it gets a release (it premiered this week at SXSW), I urge you to see it, to ponder its message, to consider what it’s saying about how microplastics — plastic particles that are ...

This is the first study to show plastic particles are present in atheroma plaques, but the most important finding is that this was related to a four times higher risk for cardiovascular events ...