The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

Microplastics were detected in almost every seafood sample found off the coast of the western U.S. in a recent study. The ...

Douglas McIntyre, editor-in-chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that 99% of fish off the West Coast contain microplastics.

In Finland’s freezing Arctic, lakes and rivers have nourished the lifeways of Indigenous Skolt Sámi communities for ...

It’s one of nature’s healthiest wild foods, the backbone of a major industry in the Pacific Northwest and deeply embedded in the diets and cultures of Indigenous people in the region.

UAF scientists have found microplastics in all marine mammals species they’ve studied so far, and new results show passage ...

non-nutritious particles," said microplastics researcher and study co-author Elise Granek in the release. "Shrimp and small fish, like herring, are eating smaller food items like zooplankton.

While the source of the microplastics is unknown, researchers say one of the sources could be from the transboundary pollution accumulated in fish that come from the ocean to the freshwaters for ...

Scientists say microplastics are unavoidable, but can we limit our exposure to these potentially harmful plastic particles?