The Environmental Protection Agency also added microplastics to its contaminant candidate list for the first time.

HHS and EPA announce a joint effort to tackle microplastics and pharmaceuticals in the nation's water supply, citing a ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday that microplastics were found in all placentas that ...

A bacterium isolated from kimchi and a set of plant-derived compounds found in tamarind have each shown the ability to latch ...

Plastic pollution has become one of the defining environmental issues of modern life, and microplastics are now known to ...

The program will be called STOMP, which stands for "Systemic Targeting of MicroPlastics." ...

Last year, an Ipsos poll found that 81% of US voters supported reducing the amount of plastic that’s produced, and large ...

A 2025 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine detected microplastics and nanoplastics in the arterial plaque of patients with cardiovascular disease. Patients with microplastics in ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said they plan to study ...

Administrator Lee Zeldin and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday afternoon will announce the Trump administration’s ...

Researchers have found that bacteria isolated from kimchi can bind to plastic particles in the gut and carry them out of the body.

Microplastics are everywhere, which makes studying them all the more difficult. Labs are doing all they can to be ...