Oceans
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Environment
EnvironmentNew Study: Some Plastics Degrade Much, Much Faster Than We Thought
A team of scientists in Massachusetts, USA studying plastics largely polluting our oceans have recently revealed an astonishing discovery: polystyrene, used to make many everyday single-use plastic items, can degrade a whole lot faster than the “thousands of years” previously believed.
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Environment
EnvironmentWe Can All Cut Down Microfibre Plastics with the Turn of a Knob on Our Washing Machines
Scientists have discovered that each time we opt for a standard cycle on our washing machines instead of a delicate wash, we stop 800,000 plastic microfibres from entering our oceans and being ingested by marine animals.
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Heroes
HeroesDaring Scientists Drift with Arctic Ice for One Year to Analyze Climate Issues
Scientists aboard the German research ship "Polarstern" have begun their year-long journey in the Arctic sea-ice to study the atmosphere, ocean, ice and wildlife. Their goal: understanding how warming affects the region and planning better ways to tackle the climate crisis.
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Environment
EnvironmentCleanup System Seems to Work, Gets Plastic Out of Ocean
The Ocean Cleanup launched a 2,000-foot-long self-contained system last year, and the team behind it are now praising the system’s major success in picking up plastic, including microplastics as small as 1mm in diameter, in the world’s oceans’ largest plastic accumulation zone: the Great Pacific Garbage…
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Animals
AnimalsOrcas Free to Swim from Russian Whale Jail, Preventing Sale to China
Eleven orcas and twelve beluga whales have been released and sent back to their habitat in Russia’s Sea of Okhotsk after a year-long captivity in the Srednyaya Bay facility. Originally they were to be sold to China as show whales.
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Animals
AnimalsLeave Dolphins in Peace, New Zealand Tells Tourists
The Department of Conservation in New Zealand has restricted human interaction with wild dolphins in the Bay of Islands, banning tourists from swimming around the marine mammals and taking further measures in keeping the dolphins safe from harm or extinction.
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