As those materials break down in the environment, microplastics are turning up in the stomachs of fish, birds and other animals, as well as in human blood and tissue. And plastic manufacturing ...

Scientists say microplastics are unavoidable, but can we limit our exposure to these potentially harmful plastic particles?

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is moving to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper ...

The olfactory nerves run from the inside of the nose, through the skull, and then directly into part of the brain called the ...

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step ...

A new study found microplastics in the liver and kidneys of 52 people who had died – but the brain had the highest proportion of microplastics of all organs studied. The amount of tiny shards of ...

Microplastics pose a threat to heart health, causing harmful changes in vascular cells and increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases like atherosclerosis.

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