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06/07/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

What is being done to curb the ever-increasing microbead pollution occuring in our oceans?

Microbeads prove that when it comes to causing damage to nature, size doesn’t necessarily matter. In light of the environmental risks microbeads pose, the U.S. has taken steps to halt the use and production of these plastics. In 2015, the government enacted the Microbead-Free Waters Act, a law that prohibits the manufacture and import of microbeads. The […]

03/11/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Storm water runoff heavily contaminated by city pollution, compromising the immune systems of fish, damaging their ability to survive

In the winter of 2015, members of Jennifer McIntyre’s team drove all the way up to Seattle to take samples of stormwater by the Highway 520 bridge across Lake Washington. McIntyre, a researcher from Washington State University, made sure that they had samples whenever it rained during the eight-week period. McIntyre’s team made 25 trips in […]

12/06/2017 / By Janine Acero

Science mystery: The volume of microplastics in the Baltic Sea has remained constant over the last 30 years, despite the increase in plastic production, and scientists don’t know why

The supposed correlation of the increasing rate of plastic waste to the rise in concentration of microplastics in fish and seawater is now being contradicted by a long-term study spanning 30 years. Researchers at DTU Aqua, the University of Copenhagen, and GEOMAR in Kiel analyzed the level of microplastics in fish and water samples from […]

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