Cancer is no longer seen as a disease of old age in India. Doctors across major hospitals report more patients in their 30s ...

Is it okay to store food in plastic bags in your freezer? Which foods have a lot of microplastics? This is what I tell my patients.

Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from ...

The FDA has issued an urgent recall for more than 650,000 bottled waters due to products being produced in filthy conditions, ...

Squinting at the fine print, a customer picked up a carton of berries and turned it over in a Tesco supermarket in North London one afternoon. The packaging appeared normal—lightweight, transparent, ...

Researchers find nanoplastics from food packaging may impact Salmonella virulence and biofilm formation, raising emerging ...

Plastic pollution is more than just trash on the beach. Marine plastic waste releases PFAS and heavy metals into the water of small freshwater lakes and ponds, at levels exceeding the threshold limits ...

Simon Fraser University researchers have uncovered fiberglass contamination in a key estuary on Vancouver Island, raising concerns about how an as-yet-overlooked contaminant could affect aquatic birds ...

Researchers working across Island Nations in the South Pacific discovered that the plastics turning up in these fish were ...

Avoid sun and heat. Plastics can degrade faster when exposed to ultraviolet light and high temperatures, Dr. Mohanty said. So ...