The remaining fifth comes from 30,000 other rivers. Out of the 50 main rivers carrying plastic to the oceans, including small ...

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 ...