More than a month after they poured from a semi-trailer on a west Michigan highway, little bits of white plastic appeared to ...

Austin, Texas, has a growing microplastic problem in its soil and bodies of water. Danielle Zaleski, a student at the University of Texas' Jackson School of Geosciences, pulled a core sample from the ...

Central Washington University Biological Sciences Professor Dr. Clay Arango was recently featured on Northwest Public ...

Every load of laundry sends tiny polyester fibers down the drain, but most of those fibers never make it to the open ocean. A ...

Microplastics — the tiny pieces of plastic that range from the size of a sesame seed to microscopic particles –are increasingly showing up in our oceans, air and on our dinner plates, and this has ...

A new study published in Journal of Hazardous Materials: Plastics found that to-go coffee cups can shed significant amounts of microplastics, especially when exposed to heat. Researchers discovered ...

Plastic pollution occurs in every ecosystem on the planet and lingers for decades. Could insects be part of the solution? Previous research found that insects can ingest and absorb pure, unrefined ...

Marine microplastic levels in ocean water were associated with cognitive and other disabilities among people living in adjacent coastal counties, cross-sectional data showed. Across 218 coastal ...