The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in a new study, led by researchers from the British Antarctic ...

Microplastics have been found everywhere in the human body, including blood, breast milk, testicles, heart tissue, lung ...

The Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives Plastic has become an inevitable part of modern life. If you look around, almost everything you see has an element of plastic in it. From the water bottles we ...

There is rising concern over global concentrations of environmental microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) its human exposure ...

Scientists recently investigated what happens when human immune cells are exposed to the microplastics found in cigarette ...

Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at alarming rates, with concentrations rising 50% in the past eight years. Researchers found plastic fragments as small as 200 nanometers, possibly ...

Microplastics were detected in almost every seafood sample found off the coast of the western U.S. in a recent study. The particles were found in the edible tissue of six different species of fish.

Scientists found microplastics in all 52 examined human brains. Newer brain samples had more plastic than older ones.

There is some evidence that the accumulation of microplastics, especially in critical organs like the liver, can interfere with normal biological functions. Data from the study also found microplastic ...

Scientists examining postmortem brain tissue found microplastic levels significantly higher in the brain compared to other ...

Explore the alarming discovery of microplastics in human brain tissue, their potential health impacts, and the urgent need ...

According to a new study from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences, the brain contains higher concentrations of ...