People who drink bottled water every day ingest 90,000 more microplastic particles per year than people who drink tap water, ...

Tiny plastic pieces have spread all over the planet — on land, in the air and even in clouds. An estimated 170 trillion bits of microplastic are estimated to be in the oceans alone. Across the globe, ...

Microplastic pollution has escalated at a pace that has outstripped early scientific expectations, largely because researchers underestimated how many pathways plastics take as they fragment and ...