So where does the oceans' plastic waste come from? In the form of bottles, tyres, packaging and piping, millions of tonnes of plastic waste are dumped every year in the world's waterways ...

Straws might seem insignificant, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade.

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

They found that the concentrations of particles in kidney and liver samples were comparable, with an average of 433 ...