Elias Marat – A new, sad side effect of the pandemic is millions of pieces of discarded personal protective equipment (PPE) that is littering the planet in shocking ways.
Anthony McLennan – Plastic pollution is the modern plague of the sea.
Elias Marat – Animal rights advocates have warmly welcomed the news.
Anthony McLennan – Dive tour operators have decided to put their time to good use by planting coral along the Great Barrier Reef.
John Vibes – According to a new study, creatures in the ocean have acted as a natural defense against viruses for the human population.
Jesica Corbett – The concerns follow new research suggesting that climate issues could completely wipe out all of the world’s coral reef habitats by 2100.
John Vibes – Two environmental groups have issued a warning that they will be filing a lawsuit against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Julia Conley – “Time to get off fossil fuel and on to renewables.”
Olivia Rosane – China, the world’s No. 1 producer of plastic pollution, announced major plans Sunday to cut back on the sale and production of single-use plastics.
John Vibes – A massive floating net filled with hundreds of decomposing sharks and other sea creatures was discovered by a group of divers who were swimming near the Cayman Islands.
Mayukh Saha – Large tracts of the Great Barrier Reef are dead. But scientists have been successful in bringing some dead patches back to life using an ingenious method.
Dr. Mercola – Boyan Slat, a young Dutch entrepreneur and his group, The Ocean Cleanup, have invented an ingenious collection barge to clean plastic debris from our oceans.
Olivia Rosane – A team of NOAA researchers didn’t intend to study plastic pollution when they towed a tiny mesh net through the waters off Hawaii’s West Coast.
Jordan Davidson – The Great Bubble Barrier launched their device last week in Amsterdam’s Westerdok Canal, at the tip of city’s historic canal belt.
Jordan Davidson – An enormous floating device designed by Dutch scientists for the non-profit Ocean Cleanup successfully captured and removed plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Nicholas Barrett, Mongabay Waking Times Small fragments of plastic waste are damaging the health of lugworms, putting a key cog in marine ecosystems at risk. Published in Current Biology, a new study by scientists at the University of Exeter and the University of Plymouth shows the impact of microplastics on the marine worms’ health and behavior. …
Loren Bell, Mongabay Waking Times One quarter of all shark and ray species are threatened with extinction, according to a new study published in the open-access journal eLife. The paper analyzed the threat and conservation status of 1,041 species of chondrichthyans—the class of fish whose skeletons are made of cartilage instead of bone which includes sharks, …
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times About 300 million tons of plastic are produced each year. In the US alone, about 30+ million tons of plastic waste is dumped into the solid waste system, including various plastic containers, bags and other types of packaging, with only about 10% being recycled. Plastic, which was once regarded …
The MIDWAY media project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy being caused by plastic pollution. With photographer Chris Jordan as our guide, we walk through the fire of horror and grief, facing the immensity of this tragedy–and our own complicity–head on. And in this process, we find an unexpected route to a transformational experience of beauty, acceptance, and understanding.
