Plas-Stick: Indian Teens' Tamarind Powder Pulls Microplastics From Water

Three teenagers from India have turned a kitchen leftover into one of the year's most talked-about environmental ideas.

Why Microplastics Are the Invisible Problem Worth Solving

Microplastics are the tiny plastic fragments — smaller than five millimetres, often invisible to the naked eye — that shed from packaging, synthetic clothing, tyres and the slow br

Drinking water is one of the most direct routes into our bodies.

That is exactly the gap the Plas-Stick team set out to address: a pollutant that is everywhere, dangerous in ways researchers are still mapping, and almost impossible to remove wit