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Tag: marine debris

The Other Side of Plastic Pollution
Coral Pollution

The Other Side of Plastic Pollution

Research shows that some marine debris can actually be useful to marine animals.
June 22, 2024September 22, 2024 Jordana Portman
Timeless Trash Takes Center Stage?
Plastic Pollution

Timeless Trash Takes Center Stage?

Kaandorp, M.L.A., Lobelle, D., Kehl, C. et al. Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris. Nat. Geosci. 16, 689–694 (2023).…
August 14, 2023August 14, 2023 Krti Tallam
Pollution

A Junkyard in the Belly of a Whale

A candy wrapper, plastic bags, car parts, packing materials, and fishing gear… it sounds like a list of things you…
October 24, 2016October 24, 2016 Carrie McDonough
Book Review Coastal Management Conservation Hazards Human impacts Methodology Modeling Plastic Pollution Remote Sensing technology

To I.D. Debris: LIDAR as a tool to identify trash on the beach

Scientists may have a new option for figuring out how much debris litters our beaches and what it all is!…
June 8, 2016June 7, 2016 Rebecca Flynn
Chemistry

Please Pass the Plastic

Tiny shards and fibers of plastic termed “microplastics” accumulate in seafood with unknown consequences for human health. Now, they’re turning…
December 31, 2015December 31, 2015 Carrie McDonough
Human impacts Pollution

How Much Garbage is in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

There’s been a lot of news floating around about “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch”, the region of the Pacific Ocean…
May 9, 2014May 9, 2014 Carrie McDonough
Chemistry

Double Trouble: Marine Plastic Debris Absorbs Toxic Pollutants

Recently, you may have heard that scientists have discovered small plastic particles floating in the open ocean and in the…
December 30, 2013January 25, 2014 Carrie McDonough

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