Researchers are just beginning to understand how microplastics might be affecting human health. A Reporter visited a lab to ...

A small study found that fatty buildup in the blood vessels of the neck (carotid arteries) may contain 50 times or more micronanoplastics -- minuscule bits of plastic -- compared to arteries free of ...

Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear. A typical closet is loaded with ...

UT Arlington research finds wastewater treatment plants are still not effectively removing dangerous microplastics ...

Danish Urban Water Retention has used the plastic to develop square modules that are placed underground in urban areas for storage or transportation of stormwater.

A flood warning is in effect for most of central and southern Indiana until 11 p.m. Saturday. Numerous river warnings are in effect. Owen and Morgan counties are under travel warnings ...

Uncertainty around the operational and market impacts of the Trump administration’s latest round of tariffs is expected to continue in the near future as plastics recyclers and related industries wait ...

Over half of UK shoppers see the effect of plastic breaking down to microplastics in the ocean and waterways as their biggest concern when it comes to the damage plastic causes to the environment, ...

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – A cold front moving across South Florida brought waves of heavy rain Tuesday, triggering a flood advisory for parts of Broward County and creating hazardous conditions on ...

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying to find out its effects.

As US President Donald Trump turns the screws on Europe, policymakers there are increasingly panicked over the prospect of a fresh wave of cut-price Chinese imports flooding the region’s ports ...

Trent Severn Waterway, Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment and Climate Change Canada, the flood warning issued last week remains in effect until Friday.