The team uses seawater and delicate mesh filters to painstakingly separate the buoyant plastic by hand. The goal is to ...

Inside the search for the tiny particles that might be causing big problems for every human being on the planet.

With plastics breaking down into microscopic particles that enter the food chain, researchers are investigating how they may ...

NATIONWIDE — A new study states that microplastics, known to be in the ocean and in food, may be in more places, and in larger numbers. Scientists found that humans may be inhaling 100 times more ...