Erin Markham

Derelict fishing traps, or DFTs, are abandoned traps that may still be actively capturing marine organisms, in a phenomenon known…

A large portion of the North American Grizzly Bear population call Western Canada home. The diet of these bears ranges…

Wetlands provide valuable services to humans every day, including flood protection, water purification, and shoreline stabilization to name a few.…

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Here, a pair of researchers investigates the…

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame retardants found in the environment all over the globe, including the Arctic. Here, scientists…

Microplastics constitute the large majority of plastic pollution in our global oceans. Microplastic fibers are small fibers that might not…

POPs, or persistent organic pollutants, are manmade chemicals that don’t break down in the environment and are found nearly everywhere…

French Polynesia produces a large majority of the world's Tahitian cultured pearls and is at the center of the multi-million…

Ballast water transfers occur in or near major ports all the time to keep up with the demands of global…

The oil or "tar" sands in Alberta, Canada are the third largest known reserves of accessible oil in the world.…

Fluorinated compounds are an emerging class of persistent pollutants that have a global presence in the environment, biota, and humans,…