A new Netflix documentary called "The Plastic Detox" is a sobering look at all the ways that plastic harms our bodies and the ...

Pamela J. Lein considers whether micro- and nanoplastics are accumulating in the brain and the question of whether they are ...

Source: Marek Pavlik / Unsplash Microplastics have become an unavoidable part of our daily life, embedded in packaging and clothing, and found in our oceans, in the air we breathe, and in the water we ...

Microplastics have shifted from an abstract pollution problem in distant oceans to a concrete health issue inside our own bodies. Scientists are now finding that one of the most convenient products in ...

The world’s reliance on plastic has many unseen consequences on human health, enabling fragments of micro- and nano-plastics — and the chemicals that they’re composed of — to proliferate throughout ...

Service members face health risks both while at home and when deployed, and the emerging global threat of micro- and nanoplastics, or MNPs, may have long-term impacts on their health. "We’re beginning ...