CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – While microplastics have received significant attention in recent years for their negative environmental impacts, a new study from Oregon State University scientists found ...

New research shows that nanoplastics in water can strengthen bacteria, raising concerns about drinking water safety.

(Beyond Pesticides, July 25, 2025) The scientific literature shows that microplastics (MPs) and pesticides, both ubiquitous throughout the environment, have synergistic effects that threaten aquatic ...

Tiny plastic particles may be quietly reshaping microbial life in drinking water systems. Nanoplastics already raise fears because people can ingest them directly. Now scientists say these tiny partic ...

Bacteria levels near the break, which occurred just south of the American Legion Bridge, have soared. On Friday, leaders of the Washington Aqueduct explained why drinking water isn’t being impacted by ...

Human health risks from direct consumption of toxic nanoplastics are already scary, but researchers have confirmed that nanoplastics in water give rise to an additional threat: They strengthen ...

Cold-water fish are losing their habitats in temperate lakes due to a climate change "squeeze," scientists have found. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

When seawater gets cold, it gets viscous. This fact could explain how single-celled ocean creatures became multicellular when the planet was frozen during “Snowball Earth,” according to experiments.

While microplastics have received significant attention in recent years for their negative environmental impacts, a new study has found microfibers from synthetic materials as well as cotton impacted ...