Experts at leading health care conferences last month called for further research into the health effects of microplastics ...

Early studies suggest that plastic particles are influencing human blood pressure, a condition linked to serious ...

For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s ...

Opinion: Wake Forest University School of Law's Sarah Morath says the federal response to plastic pollution means state and ...

One of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first campaign promises during his failed presidential bid was to curb plastic pollution, ...

Globally only around 9% of plastics are recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, incinerators, fields, rivers, oceans, and ...

“Plastic poses hazards to human health at every stage of its life cycle.” Global Observatory on Pollution and Health Director Philip Landrigan, M.D. The project is a continuation of the observatory’s ...

In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is ...

Scientific studies on nine major waterways reveal an 'alarming' pollution by small particles. For the first time, a bacterium ...

When it comes to the ocean, not everyone fully understands its significance to human life, marine biodiversity, and the ...

The new study by the CSIRO found polystyrene and cigarette butts are some of the most commonly found items in the environment ...

"Alarming" levels of microplastic have been found in major rivers across Europe according to scientists in 14 studies ...