A research team collected samples of exhaled breath from 11 bottlenose dolphins and found something deeply worrying: tiny ...

Far from being just a figure of speech, the existence of microplastics spread throughout the ocean is unequivocal for ...

Researchers at the University of Birmingham investigated the environmental effects of microplastics and PFAS and showed that, ...

Researchers found that air samples taken from the playful marine mammals’ blow holes contained plastic polymer fibers and ...

The combined impact of so-called "forever chemicals" is more harmful to the environment than single chemicals in isolation, a ...

Professor Fay Couceiro leads a team that researches the potential health impacts of microplastics. Not microwaving food in ...

Researchers have found microplastics in the breath of bottlenose dolphins. It’s the first evidence that marine mammals could ...

New research highlights how extensive plastic pollution is—and how nonhuman species, including dolphins, are exposed.

A new study has found evidence of microplastics in dolphin breath, increasing fears about ocean plastic pollution ...

A Rutgers Health study has discovered aerosolized plastics in neonatal tissue following in utero exposure. Plastic pollution, ...

Microplastics are small pieces of plastic - less then 5 mm long. The scale of the issue is vast, with microplastics being ...

This finding is significant as it shows that dolphins, like humans, may be equally, if not more, at risk from inhaling ...