It seems anywhere scientists look for plastic, they find it ... finding that the amount of microscopic plastics floating in bottled drinking water is far greater than initially believed.

In June, Zoe Rosenberg (@zoe_rooster) pulled trash from a body of water. There was a fish inside, and it seemed to be on the verge of death. "This morning I found a fish suffocating in a plastic ...

However, the satellite technology used to spot plastic floating in water doesn’t work so well in spotting plastic lying on beaches, where it can easily blend in with the sand. This latest ...

In an age where nano- and microplastics (NMPs) are literally everywhere, scientists found a simple solution to remove them ...

That the plastic is floating around in large pieces could with ... of observational data and measurements taken from surface water, beaches and the deep ocean from 1980 to 2020.

There is a lot less plastic pollution floating on the surface of the oceans ... metric tons of surface plastic could remain in the water for decades. And plastic going into the oceans is likely ...

Many plastic microparticles are less dense than water and so they would float and not be removed from the water. But we also don’t know what happens to the particles once they enter the human gut.

The Cleveland Water Department welcomes the research ... determined that there were an estimated 15 billion pieces of plastic floating in the five Great Lakes, with the Lake Ontario containing ...