Dedicated volunteers nationwide are working to protect our water from microplastics. Late last year, we won a major step ...

Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural environments in greater quantities than in urban locations, researchers ...

A new study from has overturned assumptions about airborne plastic pollution, finding that a rural woodland area recorded ...

Citizen scientists have the chance to join world-renowned microplastic experts on an expedition off the Atlantic coast. University of Staffordshire’s Professor Claire Gwinnett and colleagues have ...

Scientists have identified micro pollution hotspots in both the air and waters of the Hawaiian Islands. A multidisciplinary team of National Geographic Explorers mapped microplastic and microfibre ...

Whether it’s in our seafood, the air we breathe, or even our own internal organs, microplastics have been a hot topic of ...

Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural environments in greater quantities than in urban locations, researchers say.Scientists led by the ...

Researchers in Xi’an found city air microplastics tripled after COVID-19, with masks and pollution driving fibers into lungs, ...

The AWI's citizen science project 'Microplastic Detectives' has analyzed 2.2 tons of sand from German coasts for microplastics. The global production of plastics and the resulting plastic waste has ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Here’s some bitter news to sip on. Microplastics are impossible to avoid, lurking in everything from the food you eat and the water you drink to the clothes you wear and the cosmetics you apply. Now, ...

Megan Meyer is a science communication consultant who is passionate about translating science to a variety of audiences. She received her PhD in nutritional immunology from The University of North ...