Living near heavily microplastic-polluted waters along the United States coastline may significantly raise the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, stroke and coronary artery disease, a condition in ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

Plastic waste in the ocean can break down into microplastics, which researchers measured near U.S. coastlines to study possible links to higher rates of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

The sea breeze, magical evenings, blissful rains — living near the ocean is almost as perfect as a dream. But all that serenity may come at the cost of your health. A recent study found that people ...

Living in a U.S. coastal county bordered by ocean waters with very high concentrations of microplastics may increase the risk of heart and metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, coronary artery ...

North Sea pollution / H.A. Cole -- A pollution survey of the Trondheim Fjord, as influenced by sewage and the pulp mill industry / G. Berge, R. Ljøen and K.H. Palmork -- Pollution in the Baltic / B.I.

Millions of gallons of untreated waste pollute the coastal waters off the Mexico-California border each year. So far, no one has hit on an idea that will completely solve the problem, but the federal ...

Dan Daher rolled out at 5 a.m. from the shaded parking lot behind the Torres Martinez Tribal Community Hall in Mecca, as he does every Sunday through Thursday. By day's end, he'll have logged nearly ...

A dried-up former boating dock is seen along the Salton Sea July 14, 2021, in Desert Shores, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) SAN DIEGO (CN) — Back in 2003, farmers in California's Imperial ...

Sea foam is a common sight along the coastline as breaking waves churn up air and algae. Now, a study in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology reports that sea foam from several beaches along North ...

A study of microplastics in U.S. coastal waters found that residents of counties adjacent to the most heavily microplastic-polluted waters had significantly higher rates of Type 2 diabetes, coronary ...