Environment
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Environment USARecord Amount of Plastic Recovered from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
An American non-profit organization completed its 48-day expedition and was able to collect a record 130 tons of fishing nets and toxic plastic debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, completing the “largest open ocean clean-up in history”.
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Environment NetherlandsBees and Butterflies Now Live on Bus Stops (yes, Bus Stops!)
As part of its global green plan, the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands has decided to add a multitasking succulent plant on the roof of 316 of its bus stops, turning them into, among other things, new habitats for bees and butterflies.
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Environment USASea Urchins Munch Through Enough Algae to Save a Coral Reef
The introduction of nearly 100,000 urchins over the last two years in the Kāne’ohe Bay, on the hawaiian island of Oahu, helped save the coral reef by grazing through an invasive non-Hawaiian species of algae introduced in the 1970s.
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Environment USAThis Plant Was Deemed Extinct – Now They Found it in Hawai
An hibiscus thought to be extinct was rediscovered on a remote cliffside in Hawaii thanks to drones, giving hope to scientists who see the potential this technology has in the discovery - and rediscovery - of different species of plants.
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