For years, scientists suspected that waves breaking on plastic-littered seas were a major source of the tiny fragments now ...

Chinese researchers who developed a new method to measure airborne microplastic pollution found more than they expected. The researchers captured, verified and measured particles as small as 200 ...

After mapping America's skies, scientists realized that they had been missing this crucial pollution contributor: woodburning.

Long-term high ultrafine particle concentrations in New York state neighborhoods are linked to higher numbers of deaths. That is the key finding of our new research, published in the Journal of ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

An atmospheric scientist at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has ...

Face masks can prevent inhalation of the particles, researchers found MONDAY, Oct. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The tiny particles inhaled from air pollution stick to our red blood cells, hitching a ...

A pioneering method to simulate how microscopic particles move through the air could boost efforts to combat air pollution, a study suggests. A pioneering method to simulate how microscopic particles ...

Representative light microscopy images of carbonaceous (black) particles adherent to red blood cells (red arrows) from healthy volunteers. Each image is from a different adult volunteer. Researchers ...

Indoor air quality is not just about filters and machines. Every surface inside a home contributes to what ends up in ...