Most of the plastic bottles washing up on the rocky shores of Inaccessible Island, aptly named for its sheer cliffs rising from the middle of the South Atlantic, probably come from Chinese merchant ships, a study published ...
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Sep 30, 2019
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It's common knowledge that, through the process of natural selection, organisms adapt to their environments. But what happens when there are no barriers to gene flow and organisms are free-floating between extremely variable ...
Ecology
Sep 27, 2019
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Delicate wash cycles in washing machines found to release more plastic microfibres than other cycles.
Environment
Sep 26, 2019
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Plastic pollution in the oceans has become an important societal problem, as plastics are the most common and persistent pollutants in oceans and beaches worldwide. In the common imagination, plastic waste is often associated ...
Environment
Sep 25, 2019
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Thousands of them plague our beaches to the horror of holidaymakers who dread their sting, but thanks to man's disruption of the oceans, jellyfish are thriving.
Ecology
Sep 24, 2019
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You're probably used to hearing that the ocean is full of plastic, but scientists are puzzled by a rather different problem—there actually appears to be a lot less of it than there should be. Most large plastic debris floats, ...
Environment
Sep 23, 2019
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Beachcombing has long been a part of life for island communities. On the southwestern edge of Scarp, a small, treeless island off the coast of Harris in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, the Mol Mòr ("big beach") was where locals ...
Environment
Aug 20, 2019
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At first glance, it looks like hard candy laced with flecks of fake fruit, or a third grader's art project confected from recycled debris.
Environment
Aug 16, 2019
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A research team, led by the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, recently returning from a groundbreaking, 18-day expedition aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden has made a discovery related to plastics ...
Environment
Aug 15, 2019
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A new study of seabirds that had ingested plastic debris has revealed the range of impacts on their health and physiology including a rise in cholesterol levels.
Environment
Jul 30, 2019
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