Ahead of the UN plastics treaty talks in Busan, The Straits Times launched an interactive that traced the invisible journey of microplastics across the oceans. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how ...
Analysis: we are putting about 8 million tonnes of plastic waste into the ocean but only 1% of this actually resurfaces Every year, over 300 million tonnes of plastic products are produced globally, ...
The problems caused by plastic in the world's oceans have been known for a while, but how much is floating out there? An estimated 171 trillion plastic particles were afloat in the oceans by 2019, ...
With so much plastic waste dumped in the world’s oceans each year, sports clothing company Adidas has teamed up with an environmental awareness organisation to take that waste and turn it into a new ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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Plastic pollution could linger at ocean surfaces for over a century, new research finds
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 ...
Amélie Châtel has received funding from Anses. It’s no secret: when we savour a delicious piece of fish or a platter of seafood, we’re not just consuming valuable omega-3s and vitamin D. Alongside ...
Tingloy, Batangas , Philippines — This beach is pretty remote but somehow it’s still covered in trash. Mixed in with the usual influx of driftwood and seaweed are countless sachets, plastic bottles ...
Kate Spencer receives funding from NERC, Lloyd's Register Foundation and EU Interreg IV programme Preventing Plastic Pollution Nan Wu works for Queen Mary University of London and the British ...
Plastic can take a long time to break down and decompose. Combine that with the fact that plastic is being found everywhere and microplastics have even been found in the human body, and you have quite ...
It's no secret: when we savor a delicious piece of fish or a platter of seafood, we're not just consuming valuable omega-3s ...
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