Sometimes the best inspiration comes from an unlikely source. If you needed fresh evidence, a new microplastic-filtering technology modeled after fish gill arches could soon solve a key problem ...

Every load of laundry sends tiny plastic fibers down the drain. These fragments, shed from synthetic fabrics, slip through most wastewater filters and spread through rivers, farmland, and food. But ...

Wastewater from washing machines is considered a major source of microplastics—tiny plastic particles that are suspected of harming human and animal health. Researchers at the University of Bonn have ...

You knew about the mercury in your ahi tuna, the neurotoxin in your Dungeness crab, and the drought that's killing off the salmon population. Our delicious friends from the deep now face another ...