Microplastics range from about the width of a bacterium to several millimeters across. Nanoplastics are smaller still. These ...

Microplastics – the tiny particles of plastic shed when litter breaks down – are everywhere, from the deep sea to Mount Everest, and many researchers worry that they could harm human health. I am a ...

While MPs have already been detected in human reproductive systems, the study, published in the Journal of the Endocrine ...

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

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Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water, according to ...

Microplastics are turning up everywhere, from remote mountain tops to deep ocean trenches. They also are in many animals, including humans. The most common microplastics in the environment are ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ambuj Tewari, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) Microplastics – the tiny ...