While many people have been encouraged to swap plastic bottles for reusable ones in an effort to help the environment, it has ...

A recent study has found that plastic particles are found in bottled water, and they have been linked to several health ...

A study from the American Chemical Society has revealed that bottled water is filled with harmful plastic particles that have ...

“Previously, this was just a dark, uncharted area. Toxicity studies were just guessing what’s in there,” said study coauthor Beizhan Yan, PhD, an environmental chemist at Columbia University ...

Nanoplastics can penetrate physiological barriers more easily and, being lighter, can travel farther, study co-author Beizhan Yan, an environmental chemist at Columbia University’s Lamont ...