Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that have made their way into our food, water, and even the air we breathe. Research has shown that consuming high levels of microplastics can have harmful ...

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink ...

Drinking from plastic bottles may be poisonous to your health — and drinking straight from the tap might save your life. A recent study published in the journal Microplastics found that drinking from ...

Every day, humans unknowingly consume the equivalent of a credit card’s worth of plastic particles, accumulating to approximately 50 plastic bags worth of microplastics annually. These microscopic ...

DAVIS, Calif. — We’re all inadvertently dining on tens of thousands of plastic particles annually. Now, researchers have figured out what all that plastic might be doing inside your body. A new study ...

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal cells absorb, according to two new studies from Rutgers Health ...

In testing by Water Filter Guru, a drip coffee machine sample contained about 453 plastic particles per liter, versus about 131 per liter from a high-power blender. Even simple‐use appliances like ...

Researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides in lettuce and human intestinal cells, raising new safety concerns about plastic pollution.

Some tea bags release billions of tiny plastic particles when immersed in hot water, creating tea that can harm your health and increase your risk of cancer—but not all tea is equally as dangerous.

Researchers in Germany and Australia have created a simple but powerful tool to detect nanoplastics—tiny, invisible particles that can slip through skin and even the blood-brain barrier. Using an ...

A new study estimates that adults inhale up to 68,000 microplastic particles per day inside homes and cars, with most particles small enough to reach deep into the lungs. (Image by Nadiia Yakovenko, ...

If you’ve ever watched a nail tech shave down acrylics, you’ve seen it: that cloudy dust swirling in the air? It’s not just harmless debris. It’s microplastics. Her video, which described someone ...