Airborne plastic particles, particularly colorful ones, absorb more sunlight than they reflect, which can heat the ...

There's no way to completely avoid microplastics. The good news is that there are steps you can take to reduce your ...

Cold water, full loads and a simple mesh bag can dramatically cut the plastic fibers your laundry sends into waterways.

Microplastics seem to be everywhere—from our oceans and air, to drinking water and cosmetic products. Researchers have even ...

Microplastics are so widespread that they’ve been found everywhere from oceans and farmland to human blood and lungs. But for ...

Life in plastic isn’t so fantastic. While there’s debate over how much is actually in our systems, microplastics are all the ...

Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms ...

For decades, the conversation around microplastics focused on what they were doing to our oceans, our soil, and our bodies.

Your kitchen is one of the biggest sources of daily microplastic exposure — here are 16 ways to change that fast.

At that point, they are considered microplastics, less than 5 millimeters (about the width of a pencil eraser). Research has ...

A study says the coloring of microplastics can make a big difference in how much they heat up the Earth.

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