With recent studies having established the presence of nano and microplastic particles in the respiratory systems of both human and bird populations, a new study has modeled what happens when people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic bottle move on a conveyor belt in a factory. You might be ingesting 22,043,000 to ...

Tiny plastic pieces have spread all over the planet — on land, in the air and even in clouds. An estimated 170 trillion bits of microplastic are estimated to be in the oceans alone. Across the globe, ...

Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One. In humans, inhaled ...

Scientists in Germany have found that microscopic plastic particles make up a measurable share of urban air pollution, with ...

According to a new study, humans can inhale more than 70,000 microplastic particles each day in an indoor environment – far more than previously thought. Worse still, most of them are small enough to ...

When I became a climate activist more than a decade ago, focusing on single-use plastics seemed like a great way to introduce people to climate action. The fact that each of us makes decisions every ...

Take a deep breath, drink a glass of water, eat a snack. If you do any of these things, it’s likely that you are also inhaling and ingesting tiny particles of plastic, as much as a credit card’s ...