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"With analytics, we can dramatically improve plastic removal efforts in the ocean," said study co-author Dick den Hertog of ...
On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal clear ocean, live some of the most plastic-contaminated birds in ...
"High abundances have been consistently observed in deep waters, including … 13,500 particles per [cubic meter] at ...
Most models haven’t accounted for how microplastics may increase global warming by disrupting natural cycles that store ...
The problem of maritime plastic-waste pollution first became apparent in the 1970s. In the half-century since then, the problem has become ever more widespread, as scientific expeditions conducted by ...
The problem of maritime plastic-waste pollution first became apparent in ... as scientific expeditions conducted by the Tara Ocean Foundation (of which I am executive director) have shown.
He is part of a team of researchers from Adrift Lab, a global unit that studies the effect of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, that has been studying the island’s birds, sable ...
The first study of microplastics in Texas coastal sediment was funded through a local environmental activist’s landmark legal ...
A growing number of cities are attempting to use data, often painstakingly gathered through dumpsite visits and household ...
Volunteers working with the Alliance for the Great Lakes pluck Styrofoam cups from the sand and catch grocery bags bouncing ...