What do microplastics, water color, and satellites have in common? Dr. Karl Kaiser, professor of marine and coastal ...

Fish in some of the world's most remote regions are being contaminated by plastic pollution, reveals new research.

Even in some of the most isolated corners of the Pacific, plastic pollution has quietly worked its way into the food web. A ...

Microplastics at the University of Bayreuth have overturned a common scientific assumption in a new study: Microplastic particles do not all exhibit similar transport behavior regardless of their ...

A study published in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Review has assessed the presence of microplastics in drinking water sources in Southern India. The work provides new evidence of the spread of ...

The world is in a "plastics crisis" amid concerns plastic production has risen more than 200 times since 1950 and will triple again by 2060, a report has warned. The report, published in the Lancet ...

STORY: This river in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state has one of the world’s highest concentrations of microplastic pollution, according to a new study. Its findings are raising concerns among scientists and ...

The particles can even find their way to your food.

In a breakthrough for cleaner cities, scientists reveal that green roofs aren’t just beautiful. They are powerful pollution barriers that capture billions of airborne microplastics every year. A ...

Here, there and everywhere: Due to its minuscule size and its ease of scattering, glitter is more harmful than other sorts of microplastics. Glitter (Credit: Nika Akin / CC0 Public Domain) I’ve been ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particles ...

Cigarette filters release two dozen microfibers upon first contact with water, threatening wildlife and human health.