You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

While it might be impossible to avoid microplastics entirely, experts shared several practical steps you can take to reduce ...

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step ...

In an interview, Ocean Conservancy’s associate director for oceans plastics research, Dr. Britta Baechler said because of their size, microplastics are prevelent in the entire marine eco-system.

Facts About Plastic Pollution and Microplastics Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our ...

If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily surface slicks in which many ocean fish come of age are ...

And not least of which is there are some very, very, very small plastics inside our bodies that probably have not been paid attention to." Nanoplastics, a fraction of the size of a grain of salt ...

In recent years, microplastics have been appearing more in human brains, University of New Mexico Health Sciences researchers ...