Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come ...

Through their experiment, which tested different types of microplastics undergoing varying flow velocities and sediment bed compositions, they found that spherical particles most often continue ...

Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics are all over the environment and even inside human bodies. Researchers have found a type of bioengineered algae that can clean up these pesky particles.

Plastics are ever-present in our society. And they don't decompose, but become tiny particles called microplastics. And those have been found everywhere. Now, they're being found in some unexpected ...

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Researchers detected 19 types of microplastics in the urine of 10-year-old children, with particles present in over 91% of samples and a median concentration of 250 particles per milliliter. Greater ...

When we talk about microplastics in the Tennessee River, we’re not just talking about bottles floating on the surface.