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 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 ...

Over 20 million tons of plastic are estimated to end up in the environment every year, with much of it breaking down into ...

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

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

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, ...

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

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

If seeing is believing, then it may be hard for many of us to understand that when we take a breath, take a bite of food or ...