By collecting pieces of plastic waste and photographing them on a plain background ... conveying plastic’s impact on the natural environment in a way that scientific research papers can ...

We’ve all heard that plastics are bad for the environment, but do we truly understand why? Every day, we unknowingly consume microplastics, while animals on land and in water are ingesting, choking on ...

Microplastics, or small plastic particles less than five millimeters in length, are increasingly threatening human health and ...

Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers—similar to the plastic material used in car ...

Annually, humans produce an estimated 380 million tons of plastic waste, including 43 million tons of single-use items, such as straws. A lot of that ends up polluting the environment. According ...

coli, would respond to being in a closed environment with microplastics. Ultimately, they found that the plastics provided a surface to which the bacteria could attach and colonize, said lead ...