Over the last 20 years, scientists have come to recognize microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) as a growing form of ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

“Previously, [nanoplastics] was a dark field,” says Beizhan Yan, an environmental chemist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, as the pieces of plastic are so tiny that it’s been ...

A single 1-litre bottle of water could contain 240,000 microscopic plastic particles. The health implications of ingesting plastic are unclear, but early research suggests such particles could travel ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., April 22 (UPI) --Patients who suffered strokes, mini-strokes or temporary blindness had levels of "nanoplastic" particles in their necks far higher than in healthy people, an abstract ...