New research indicates that the levels of microplastics in humans and the environment may have been overestimated. So, should we still be concerned about their possible health effects? Katharine Lang ...

Microplastics (MPs), defined as plastic fragments with sizes ranging from millimeters (<5 mm) to nanometers, have become a growing environmental and public health concern. First identified in the ...

Research has found that microwaving food in plastic for just three minutes can release millions of tiny plastic particles ...

Microplastics have now been found inside most prostate cancer tumors — and at strikingly higher levels than in healthy tissue ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Getty Images As more plastic waste is being released into the environment, microplastics in drinking water and food ...

Prostate tumors contain more microplastics than healthy prostate tissue, researchers from New York University Langone Health ...

Some scientists are saying previous studies warning of the damage microplastics may cause are exaggerated and are false ...

New research shows that microplastics have been contaminating some freshwater streams decades earlier than previously ...

There’s nothing appetizing about plastic, yet most of us consume it daily. Microplastics — plastic debris under 5 millimeters (mm) long — are ubiquitous, found everywhere from food packaging and ...

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles under five millimeters, enter the environment from a variety of sources like larger plastic breakdown, personal care products, and industrial processes. Studies ...

DEAR DOCTORS: The more I read about microplastics, the more I want to do something to lower my family’s exposure to them. Any thoughts? Also, what is so much worse about microplastics than dust or ...