Microplastics are in everything we use, but how are we exposed, and what harm do they cause to us? Eyewitness News spoke to an expert who explained the details.

Starch-based biodegradable plastics may cause organ damage and metabolic issues, raising concerns about their safety despite ...

A study of about 250 patients in America, published in 2024 in the New England Journal of Medicine, linked the presence of ...

Last August, two high schoolers from the San Francisco Bay Area packed up a rental water pump and headed to Grand Teton National Park to test lakes for microplastics.

Microplastics might cause premature aging. New research suggests these small particles negatively impact cellular health.

Nankai University researchers have found that plant leaves can directly absorb microplastics (MPs) from the atmosphere, ...

Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large proportion is excreted, but a certain amount remains in ...

Microplastics have been under the microscope lately, especially considering it's estimated ... Microplastics can also absorb ...