Nearly every piece of plastic ever made still exists today ... so if you are eating food that has little bits of blue and red in there, these are attracting ... other contaminants in the ocean.

A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...

Microplastics are an inevitable part of our daily life, as the minuscule pieces of plastic shed and breakdown into our water, air, dust and food. These nano-sized pieces of plastic can be found in ...

Inside its gut, seven squiggles of plastic, dyed with Nile red stain, fluoresce. All over the world, researchers like Magadini are staring through microscopes at tiny pieces of plastic—fibers ...

That raises the odds that just hatched fish will mistake plastic bits for food and eat them. “The most critical moment is that first feeding,” Whitney said. “If they get a piece of plastic ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers have said, also warning of ...