A scientific review of more than 140 studies found that people who rely on bottled water ingest far more microplastic particles each year than tap water drinkers — by a wide margin.

Previous research links tiny plastic particles to a range of adverse health conditions but largely stops short of ...

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses ...

Scientists studying how tiny particles of plastic affect our everyday lives say that the amount of nanoplastics found in bottled water is between 10 to 100 times higher than researchers had previously ...

Scientists warn that bottled water may be one of the most concentrated sources of microplastics and nanoplastics humans ...

Biochar made from corn cobs can remove microplastics and ammonia from water, offering a low-cost, reusable filter made from ...

The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, the first to test ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A paper published Monday used a novel technique to analyze one-liter samples of ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of ...

At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than ...