Surfing's very own Bruce Wayne, the inimitable Ryan Harris, has developed a realistic solution to the plastic pollution crisis by turning ocean-bound plastic into surfboard fins and other products and ...
Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second. Plastic is everywhere in modern life and has essential, lifesaving ...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif (June 20, 2024) – Plastic is everywhere – more than 10 million metric tons of plastics enter the ocean each year, and the United States is ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Discover the alarming global crisis of plastic pollution and how it affects our oceans and rivers. This video explores the ...
Genetically engineered bacteria can not only degrade plastic waste, but they can convert it into valuable industrial chemicals. There are still unknowns -- for example, how to do this at scale and how ...
The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently floating in it, ...
BIOPLASTICS are increasingly promoted as a solution to the global plastic crisis, with production and use expanding rapidly ...
Thirty years ago, while counting barnacles, limpets, and seaweeds along rocky shores, I started noticing a daily tide of litter, mostly plastic. As a marine biology PhD student at Liverpool University ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- There's a dirty little secret lurking in your laundry. A single load of laundry sends 15 million microfibers through our waterways. Microfibers are tiny little strands of plastic that ...
With the United States blocking many of the issues that needed to be resolved at the UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, the Geneva conference ended with little results. Intergovernmental ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) This summer, the ...