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One gardener sought advice on Reddit before planting a new garden. Redditors quickly warned about the problems with using landscaping fabric.

Microplastics are fragments of plastic less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) across, which accumulate in the environment as a ...

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, ...

The EU’s push for a global plastics treaty is a crucial step toward mitigating the environmental and health risks of plastic ...

Microplastics have even been known to affect the gut-brain axis, leading to neurological and even psychological disorders.

Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through ...

The accumulation of micro- and nano-plastics in marine organisms, particularly fish, eventually makes its way onto our plates ...

Earlier this year, researchers reported the first known evidence of microplastics in the human brain. But what does it mean?

Two Princeton graduates have developed a new filtration system to filter harmful microplastics out of the water supply in Atlantic City.

Rivers are considered to be the main sources of microplastics entering the ocean - as they are running, they take in sewage and litter ...