The research is the first to project the environmental impact of biodegradable plastics through their entire lifecycle at a global scale ...

An international team of researchers has published the first harmonized exposure protocol for ecotoxicity testing of microplastics and nanoplastics. Published in Nature Protocols and led by the ...

Plastic pollution has become a significant environmental and human health issue at a global scale. Yet, despite increasing concern over the harmful effects of micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs), no ...

Forty years ago, Ross Hume Hall, then a professor of biochemistry at McMaster University, and Donald Chant, a University of Toronto professor of zoology and one of the founders of Pollution Probe, ...