The first study of microplastics in Texas coastal sediment was funded through a local environmental activist’s landmark legal ...

“Microplastics are particles ranging from one micron to five millimetres in size. Most research is done on larger fragments, while we focused on extremely small materials, starting from 20 microns,” ...

Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to have ...

Researchers called for long-term studies to better understand the impact. Scientists make disturbing discovery after ...

When researchers went searching for microplastics in sediments pulled from the bottom of Matagorda Bay and its surrounding inlets, they didn't find much. Most of their samples contained only tens to ...

Ana Brecevic's recent series, 'Plasticum,' reflects on the ever-growing problem of plastic pollution in the earth's oceans ...

Nylon-based products such as clothing and fishing nets are notoriously slow to degrade, especially in marine environments, ...