You may have read media reports about minute plastic particles — microplastics — swimming around in water bottles. Some of these reports raise alarming questions on the impact of small plastic ...

A joint effort from HHS and the EPA will examine how microplastics affect human health — and what it may take to reduce exposure.

If you’ve been wondering how to avoid microplastics in everyday life, your laundry room is a surprisingly important place to ...

Microplastics, pervasive in both terrestrial and aquatic environments, have been found in diverse organisms, from fish and plants to humans. Traditional imaging techniques, such as fluorescence and ...

Dealing with this volume of plastic garbage is already a tremendous challenge, but the discovery of microplastics in isolated ...

The Trump administration has called microplastics​ a "human health threat." The tiny fragments are found in the air, water, food and even clothing.