According to a new study published in Frontiers in Toxicology, commonly consumed fish are ridden with microplastics, which ...

Microplastics contaminate edible tissues of Oregon seafood, posing health concerns. Researchers call for further studies, ...

Traylor's research helped her land a job working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) after ...

The researchers initially believed that handling and packaging seafood might introduce microplastics, but the findings varied ...

Microplastics — tiny synthetic particles shed from clothing, packaging and other sources — are prevalent in many of the fish ...

The analysis from Oregon is the first of its kind in the region, and it shows that microplastics are widespread in edible ...

Microplastics, tiny shreds of human trash ... A grid painted on a petri dish helps a NOAA technician sort through a sample and identify tiny organisms, such as the larval sergeant major damselfish ...

A new $1.1 million award to UCF from NOAA Sea Grant as part of the Marine Debris Challenge Competition will fund joint research between UCF’s CEELAB and Aquatic Biogeochemistry Laboratory’s research ...

who worked on the study and is now a NOAA Corps Officer, added. “If we are disposing of and utilizing products that release microplastics, those microplastics make their way into the environment ...