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Ropes and equipment used in fishing and aquaculture are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and litter along the ...

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The tiny bits of plastic pollution that make their way from the environment into our bodies accumulate at much higher concentrations in the human brain than in other organs, a new study shows.

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

A new study has confirmed that microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) accumulate in the human brain at significantly higher levels than in the liver or kidneys.

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over single-use plastics.

With a stroke of his presidential pen, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that bans the purchase and forced use ...

Researchers also determined that people with dementia had up to 10 times as much plastic in their brains compared to those with healthy brains, but the team in the study noted that additional ...