Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come ...

Plastic pollution is seeping into the Earth, into wildlife, and into our bodies, and a new research review suggests tiny ...

Microplastics have been detected in human blood, lungs, and brain tissue. Environmental health advocate Lindsay Dahl explains ...

Plastic particles smaller than a grain of sand have now been found in human lungs, blood, arterial plaque, and placentas, ...

Microplastics are found in oceans and waterways all over the world. We are only just beginning to understand the damage they ...

There’s a lot still unknown about what exactly microplastics can do to our bodies in the long-term — and a lot of reasonable ...

Is it okay to store food in plastic bags in your freezer? Which foods have a lot of microplastics? This is what I tell my patients.

Microplastics (MPs), defined as plastic fragments with sizes ranging from millimeters (<5 mm) to nanometers, have become a growing environmental and public health concern. First identified in the ...

New research indicates that the levels of microplastics in humans and the environment may have been overestimated. So, should we still be concerned about their possible health effects? Katharine Lang ...

In a new study, researchers found microplastics deep inside prostate cancer tumors, raising more questions about the role the ...

Microplastics have now been found inside most prostate cancer tumors — and at strikingly higher levels than in healthy tissue ...

Avoid sun and heat. Plastics can degrade faster when exposed to ultraviolet light and high temperatures, Dr. Mohanty said. So ...