It may be time to find America’s next top bottle. In a new scientific paper, three physicians report that switching from bottled water to filtered tap water could cut your microplastic intake by about ...

Here’s some bitter news to sip on. Microplastics are impossible to avoid, lurking in everything from the food you eat and the water you drink to the clothes you wear and the cosmetics you apply. Now, ...

New measurements of fine microplastic particles suspended in the air in homes and cars suggest that humans may be inhaling far greater amounts of lung-penetrating microplastics than previously thought ...

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Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural environments in greater quantities than in urban locations, researchers ...

A new Tel Aviv University study has uncovered alarming findings about the spread of microplastic particles in the marine food web. In recent years, numerous studies have examined the dangers of marine ...

Microplastic particles, or tiny particles of plastic measuring less than 5 millimeters, easily contaminate natural resources and the environment. This includes waterways, the air, and the soil, ...

Tiny fragments of microplastics—from clothes, car tires, packaging, and other sources—slip through most water filters. But at a water treatment plant on the coast in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where ...