Graudiņš, who works to preserve marine resources, spoke about her group’s ongoing conservation efforts in the U.S. as she ...
Based in Chicago, the ‘Blue Paradox Community Mural Project’ hopes to showcase the beauty of the Great Lakes Region while ...
Through Zero Waste Week in November, the students collected more than 7,000 pieces of plastic waste and turned part of it into an art project with a message.
Pacific and Indian oceans serve as a crushing reminder that the ocean bears the brunt of the plastic pollution crisis, with more than 11 million metric tons of plastics entering the ocean every year.
from oceans to mountains, contaminating food chains and human bodies, where it risks damage to our organs and brains. In 2025, we will start putting an end to plastic pollution. Since 2022 ...
With the next session set for 2025, the interim period is predicted to see an additional 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of plastic pollution enter the planet’s soils, air, and oceans ...
Among these, plastic pollution stands out, as it has created a unique new ecological niche in the ocean. Once it gets into the water, plastic debris provides surfaces that can be quickly colonised ...
There’s now 150 million metric tons of plastic pollution in the ocean. We’re adding 11 million more tons a day. By 2050 there is expected to be more pounds of plastic in the ocean than fish.
While it’s may be easy to see the impact that pollution is having on our environment, its impact on our health is less ...
Plastic pollution is a growing problem in Japan, prompting cleanup efforts to recover plastic litter from water bodies. However, research on recovery rates from different river basins remains limited.