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 ...

Microplastics can be so small that they’re invisible to the naked eye, but these tiny fragments loom large in today’s public health landscape. They are virtually everywhere: Microplastics can be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though we aren’t quite sure yet what the effects of microplastics – tiny pieces of plastic that work their way into our bodies through, well, pretty much everything – are, scientists have been looking ...