On a humid morning in Tianjin, China, researchers crouched in a public park with clippers and gloves, collecting leaves from ...

Nankai University researchers have found that plant leaves can directly absorb microplastics (MPs) from the atmosphere, ...

New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously overlooked route for the particles to enter crops ...

The relative importance of this airborne exposure to microplastics in plants compared with that of other uptake routes is difficult to assess, because information available on microplastic uptake ...

Plastics are everywhere in our world, and these tough chemicals that are used in everything from food packaging to roofing ...