A wave of recent research is forcing scientists to confront an uncomfortable reality: the air filling homes, offices, and city streets carries invisible plastic particles and ultrafine pollutants that ...

Plastic pollution remains one of the world’s most challenging environmental problems. Plastic pollution has been found everywhere on Earth, from the highest mountain peaks to the deepest parts of the ...

To track the course of inhaled microplastics and their even smaller counterparts, nanoplastics, the study authors constructed a detailed computer model of the human respiratory system from the nose to ...

People may be at increased risk from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic lung disease—as rising global levels of micro- and nanoplastics (MnPs) are absorbed into the human body, a ...

Chinese researchers who developed a new method to measure airborne microplastic pollution found more than they expected. The researchers captured, verified and measured particles as small as 200 ...

Microplastics from everyday sources such as water bottles can directly damage the pancreas, according to a new study. Previous studies have linked microplastics – plastic particles measuring from ...