This story is adapted from A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies, by Matt Simon. The year was 1863, and famous billiard player Michael Phelan was worrying about ...

There’s a soap dish for sale at a beauty products shop in São Paulo, Brazil. An off-white disc with a smooth, rounded shape like a river stone, it is just one of millions of plastic soap dishes on ...

Microplastics have invaded the main European rivers, reveal 14 studies published simultaneously in the journal "Environmental Science and Pollution Research". How is plastic made? Mostly from crude ...

Plastic is cheap to make and shockingly profitable. It’s everywhere. And we’re all paying the price. On a Saturday last summer, I kayaked up a Connecticut river from the coast, buoyed by the rising ...

Plastiglomerate made of lava rock and melted plastic. Researchers reported in a news article by Sergio Queiroz for Reuters the discovery of plastic-rocks on Trindade, a remote island located 1.140 ...