A high school student in Virginia has built a filtration system that removes more than 95 percent of microplastics from ...

As reported by Smithsonian Magazine, Heller's interest in water treatment began close to home in Warrington, Virginia, after ...

washing machine. (Photo by: Newscast/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The U.K. climate tech company Matter has joined forces with Europe’s leading washing machine manufacturer to launch a ...

It is well known that discarded cigarette butts release nicotine, heavy metals and other toxins into the environment, including natural water systems. Less understood, however, is what happens to the ...

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

A global analysis by St. Joseph’s University on Long Island examines the prevalence of microplastics in marine life. Dr. Konstantine Rountos, who led the study, is an associate professor of biology at ...

Tiny plastic particles are turning up inside the laboratories built to measure them, and the contamination is distorting ...