IIvan Vallesadded this to Human-Environment Interaction Plastic FISH NURSERIES OFF HAWAII ARE NOW A MICROPLASTIC MESS.National Geographic - Laura ParkerMagazinePlanet or Plastic? Newborn fish are mistaking tiny bits of trash for food. If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. MagazinePlanet or Plastic? 9 Minute Read
vegpwradded this to Cool Articles With No HomeScience Bike, Hike, Dive for Sciencegreatbigstory.com Want to help scientists find ways to protect butterflies, create a safe passage for wildlife and rid the oceans of microplastics? Well, if you’re up …
TPFadded this to 🗞BREAKING & NOTABLE WORLD NEWS... & STORIES WHICH YOU MAY HAVE MISSEDSustainability Earth Dayresilience.org April 22 is Earth Day and next year marks its 50th anniversary. It seems a good time to pause and think about what we have accomplished and where we …
Plastic Opinion: Plastic pollutes our world, but that can changemissoulacurrent.com Like many Montanans, I use the river as a salve – a cure-all balm for anything that ails me. It’s a place where I can recharge after work, reconnect …
CTV Newsadded this to Vancouver IslandEarth Day Earth Day sees soggy volunteer-driven clean up at Clover Pointctvnews.ca - Brendan Strain For a rainy day, Clover Point in Victoria was unusually crowed today. The Surfrider Foundation, along with around 65 volunteers held their annual …
Environmentally Friendly DMNS Makes A Bigger Effort To Be Environmentally Friendlycbslocal.com - CBSDenver DENVER (CBS4) – The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is working to be more sustainable. In the T-Rex cafe, you’ll find three receptacle bins for …
BoardingAreaadded this to BoardingAreaOrbitz The Last Straw: Ten Percent Discount Off Eco Hotels 2019 With Orbitzboardingarea.com A growing list of states and municipalities in the United States have been implementing permanent bans on such items as plastic straws and plastic …
Ars TechnicaPlastic There’s just no getting away from microplastic contaminationArs Technica - Cathleen O'Grady And we still don’t know where a huge portion of our plastic waste even ends up. Microplastics may be having a moment in the spotlight, as the public …
CTV Newsadded this to KitchenerWaterloo Waterloo-based company working to remove plastics from waterctvnews.ca - CTV Kitchener Polygone Technologies has a plan to clean up the environment and improve the quality of drinking water. The Waterloo-based company is developing …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHampton Roads, VA Hampton Roads restaurants go straw-free for Earth Daywtkr.com - Anthony Sabella If you decide to eat out on Monday, there’s a chance you won’t get a straw with your drink and no, it’s not a mistake.Restaurants across Hampton …
Josh Gardneradded this to THE HUMAN SOUL, NATURE & THE UNIVERSEPlastic Pollution Study: Tiny plastic pieces are now being detected in the airAxios - Andrew Freedman In the past decade, plastics have been found in the ocean's deepest and most remote points, collecting in massive, dense clumps, and clogging the …
PanderLessadded this to EnvironmentSustainability Plastic particles are raining down on remote areastreehugger.com - Katherine Martinko Scientists are shocked at the quantity of microplastics deposited daily in the French Pyrenees. Microplastics have been found in insect larvae, house …
Plastic Microplastics have even been blown into a remote corner of the Pyreneesweforum.org - Sharon George Microplastics have been discovered in a remote area of the French Pyrenees mountains. The particles travelled through the atmosphere and were blown …
James Warren Fowleradded this to DiscoverPlastic Plastic Fragments Found for the First Time on a Glaciereos.org - Katherine Kornei Tiny pieces of plastic debris—“microplastics”—have been found in the deep ocean and even in human stool samples.Now, for the first time, this form of …
Summit Daily Newsadded this to Summit County NewsEarth Day Letters: This Earth Day consider how to help the environmentsummitdaily.com - NCS Import Plastic at center of pollution issueThe April 14 article on pollution invading Rocky Mountain National Park draws useful attention to the serious …
Forbesadded this to TechnologyPlastic Airborne Microplastics Are Landing In Remote WildernessForbes - Linh Anh CatMicroplastics have a strong association with clogged rivers and chocking oceans. Now, thanks to a new research study, we know that microplastics can become airborne and travel long distances to land in
Sam Gutzmanadded this to Design, Gadgets, Gear, Science, & TechPlastic A guide to the different types of plasticinhabitat - by Lucienne Cross BPA, PET, HDPE. You’re trying to do the right thing by recycling, following health alerts and shopping wisely, but you’re not fluent in molecular …
Good News Campaigner swims from summit of Snowdon to the sea to highlight plastic pollutionpositive.news - Lucy Purdy A campaigner for Surfers Against Sewage has swum 26k from the summit of Snowdon to the sea, collecting evidence of plastic pollution Surfers Against …
The Conversation CAPlastic Pollution Cities and countries aim to slash plastic waste within a decadetheconversation.com - Chelsea Rochman and Diane Orihel If all goes well, 2030 will be quite a special year. Global and local community leaders from more than 170 countries have pledged to “significantly …
Nuclear Energy Shapenei.org - www.nei.org Reduce your use of single-use plastics. Once you start paying attention, you realize that single-use plastics are everywhere—from the stirrers and …
Hackathons Teens use STEM to combat ocean pollution and microplastics in hackathon for Hong Kong studentsscmp.com - yp.scmp.com Top designs include a robot that collects waste on beaches, and a prototype that filters pollutants from seawater.
Professor Futon Spooninadded this to These Are A Few Of Our Favorite ThingsPlastic Ocean-Clogging Microplastics Also Pollute the Air, Study FindsThe New York Times - By LIAM STACKResearchers in France said this week that they found thousands and thousands of microplastic particles raining down on a secluded spot in the Pyrenees, 75 miles from the nearest city. Their study, published
Popular SciencePlastic Plastic hitches a ride on rain, snow, and wind to pollute the whole planetPopular Science - By Kaitlin SullivanEven the most remote locations aren’t safe from our trash. You’ve probably already heard that microplastics have made their way into our soil, oceans, poop, and even beer. Now, scientists have found that
Matador Networkadded this to All StoriesPlastic Microplastics discovered in the remote Pyrenees mountainsmatadornetwork.com - Eben Diskin We tend to think that only those living in densely populated urban environments are exposed to pollution, but that’s not the case. As reported by …
INSIDERPlasticScientists have a new way to estimate how often ocean animals get tangled in plastic — and it could explain why so many areINSIDER - Aylin Woodward For six decades, a research device with a rather unsexy name as been roaming the North Atlantic Ocean, pulled behind ships by a thick metal …
The Globe and MailPlastic B.C. art exhibit focuses on ocean plastics in effort to highlight environmental damageThe Globe and Mail - Brenna OwenFishing nets, buoys, water bottles, giant chunks of plastic foam, shoes and detritus from the Japanese tsunami are meant to offer visitors to the Maritime Museum of B.C. in Victoria just a tiny window
The GuardianPlastic Six-decade plankton study charts rise of ocean plastic wasteThe GuardianA trove of data showing when the Atlantic began choking with plastic has been uncovered in the handwritten logbooks of a little-known but doggedly persistent plankton study dating back to the middle of
Plastic The Wind Is Filled With Microplastics, Study Findsglobalcitizen.org - By Joe McCarthy The average human consumes an estimated 70,000 microplastics. Why Global Citizens Should Care Plastic pollution is causing immense harm to the world’s …
inhabitatadded this to NewsPlastic Microplastic rain: new study reveals microplastics are in the airinhabitat - by Lucienne Cross A new study published in Nature Communications reveals alarming amounts of microplastic particles in the air, even in the most remote, mountainous …
Mother Nature Networkadded this to All StoriesPlastic Wind is carrying huge amounts of microplastic dust around the worldMother Nature Network - Bryan Nelson It seems there's no where left to run from the scourge of microplastic pollution. A small pilot study recently took microplastic samples from one of …
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