Mosquitoes trapped in the Grant Park neighborhood of Atlanta have tested positive for West Nile Virus, a possibly deadly ...
New research has shown that blue sharks’ intestines act like temporary holding tanks, trapping fibers long enough to build up significant amounts. Their epic migrations mean they can spread these ...
Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific evidence, we see how microplastics permeate every sample of beach sand across ...
Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, and detected plastics in 7 of the 10 individuals studied. By integrating ...
Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...
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Deep-sea bacteria eat plastic waste in vents
The vast and mysterious depths of our oceans hold an unexpected beacon of hope in the face of the growing plastic pollution crisis. A unique breed of deep-sea bacteria has been discovered, capable of ...
What Californian hasn’t walked along one of our superb beaches only to stumble upon water bottles, cigarette butts, clamshell burger boxes and all manner of nasty plastic trash? We sigh, and plod on.
Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality is more complex and far more persistent. Even if we stopped all plastic ...
In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone contains ...
Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...
Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, and detected plastics in 7 of the 10 individuals studied. By integrating ...
How plastic sinks to the deep sea — over time, sunlight and waves break large plastic items into tiny fragments that stick to marine snow. These particles gradually sink through the ocean, carrying ...
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