Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

Over the last 20 years, scientists have come to recognize microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) as a growing form of ...

It seems anywhere scientists look for plastic, they find it: from the ice in Antarctica, to the first bowel movement produced by newborn babies. Now, researchers are finding that the amount of ...

“Previously, [nanoplastics] was a dark field,” says Beizhan Yan, an environmental chemist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, as the pieces of plastic are so tiny that it’s been ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics ...