Scientists continue to uncover the impacts of rampant plastic pollution on the environment and living organisms, which include toxic effects on human cells and infiltrating the blood brain barrier in ...

New insight into the behaviour of atmospheric plastics could be beneficial for investigating their effects on climate, ecosystems and human health ...

Microplastics are everywhere, but new research points to a need to standardize measurements of microparticles.

Scientists are increasingly alarmed by the airborne particles routinely released by power plants, petrochemical companies, motor vehicles, concrete plants and other sources. Their concerns are so ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Small particles from tires inhibited the growth and caused adverse behavioral changes in organisms found in freshwater and coastal estuary ecosystems, two new Oregon State ...

New research traces plastics from food to placentas to fetal organs. Nanoscale plastic particles like those that permeate most food and water pass from pregnant rats to their unborn children and may ...

Dust particles thrown up from deserts such as the Sahara and Gobi are playing a previously unknown role in air pollution, a new study has found. The international study published in National Science ...

Every few weeks, a new headline appears saying that our food, water, or even our bloodstream is being contaminated with tiny plastic fragments. Virtually unheard of in popular media before 2023, the ...

Detecting nanoscale plastic pollutants in the environment is a continuing challenge, and their presence is commonly only estimated rather than measured directly. A project at Vienna's TU Wien has now ...

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Officials say nine water wells near Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg contain unhealthy amounts of forever chemicals. The announcement came after officials tested water ...

Polyethylene accounts for nearly one-third of the world's plastic waste. An interdisciplinary team has now investigated the progressive degradation of polyethylene in the environment for the first ...

Co-ordinated efforts by China/ESA’s Double Star and ESA’s Cluster spacecraft have allowed scientists to zero in on an area where energetic particles from the Sun are blasting their way through the ...