Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

A combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airborne microplastic particles into the ...

Sewage spills and sea winds may send microplastics into coastal cities – study - Scientists analysed existing records on two years of combined sewer overflows into Plymouth Sound.

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Metal-organic frameworks were the next big thing in chemistry when they were invented more than three decades ago. Now, these intriguing materials are becoming commercial tools for capturing carbon ...

The study found widespread microplastic pollution across some Appalachian streams, which poses ecological and public health ...

Allowing quality farmland to be turned into a quarry is a shoot yourself in foot moment for the county council' ...

"Our students find something on every transect on every beach." Researchers make disturbing discovery after analyzing sand ...

Microplastics have permeated the region’s food chain, hitting countries like Indonesia and the Philippines the hardest. The programme Insight looks at the health risks and what is being done to boot ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

Introduction We aimed to integrate all available epidemiological evidence to characterise an exposure–response model of ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) and the risk of chronic kidney disease ...