As it stands, though, individuals are left to mediate their own relationship to plastic, in a world where plastic is the ...

Megan Hill is an assistant professor of chemistry and leader of the Hill Lab in Colorado State University's College of ...

Twenty years ago, a team of U.K. scientists sounded the alarm on a then-underappreciated problem: the breakdown of plastic ...

The paper opened an entire research field. Since then, more than 7,000 published studies have shown the prevalence of ...

The amount of plastic entering the environment will double by 2040, according to a scientific review that argues for the need ...

Science has provided more than sufficient evidence to inform a collective and global approach to tackle the continued spread ...

It's been 20 years since a paper in the journal Science showed the environmental accumulation of tiny plastic fragments and ...

A new study has detected microplastics in human brain tissue, marking the first time these plastic particles have been ...

Even if we stopped making new plastics now, microplastic pollution would keep increasing for the foreseeable future as larger ...

"Everywhere we look, we have found plastics. From remote locations across the globe to the inside our own bodies," Joel ...

Science has provided more than sufficient evidence to inform a collective and global approach to tackle the continued spread ...