A new study has found concerning findings that presence of microplastics in heart arteries could cause severe heart attacks.

A new study highlights how a combination of environmental stressors -- namely plastic pollution and seawater flooding -- can increase the threats faced by plants in some of the planet's critical ...

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...

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A new European Heart Journal study has found that heart attack patients carry significantly higher levels of microplastics ...

The research suggests that smoking as well as breathing polluted air could facilitate the entry of these tiny particles into ...

Plastics and the long-lasting chemicals they're made of are accumulating in our oceans, leaching into our farm fields and piling up in landfills. Plastic is floating ...

A study published in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Review has assessed the presence of microplastics in drinking water sources in Southern India. The work provides new evidence of the spread of ...

Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations began ...

Global plastics pollution has been created in one generation and, with system-wide accountability, can be solved in one generation. GLAND, Switzerland (5 March 2019) – The global plastics pollution ...

Two of the planet's more pressing environmental stressors have the potential to alter the growth and reproductive output of plants found right along the world's coastlines, a new study suggests. It ...