Rice is also a hotspot for microplastics. A University of Queensland study found that for every half cup of rice, there are 3 ...

Just one plastic tea bag can release 11.6 billion microplastics. A single tea bag could dump nearly 12 billion microplastics into your drink — here's what to know first appeared on The Cool Down.

Researchers warn that plastic production and emissions are driving a rising global health burden, measured in millions of lost healthy years.

Recent revelations that tea bags leach microplastics and nanoplastics into one’s steaming cup of tea, the second most ...

Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He explains why he thinks these super-sponges will define the next century ...