In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. A study published today reveals yet another hidden source of this deadly ...

Trillions of invisible plastic fragments—each smaller than a single bacterium—are polluting one section of ocean in volumes ...

It’s 8.30am and I’ve already had a dozen vials of blood drawn out of my arm when Dr Peter Barry gets me to blow into a breathalyser-type device which will apparently tell me whether I’m burning fat or ...