First, let’s get real: Not all plastic is bad. Bike helmets, car airbags, and many medical supplies made with plastic save ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Living near heavily microplastic-polluted waters along the United States coastline may significantly raise the risk of developing ...
Ocean acidification is one of the clearest examples of how planet-heating pollution moves through natural systems and into everyday life.
Living in a U.S. coastal county bordered by ocean waters with very high concentrations of microplastics may increase the risk of heart and metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, coronary artery ...
SkyTruth finds chronic marine oil pollution contaminates an estimated 1.58 million km² yearly, threatening sensitive marine ...
Plastic waste in the ocean can break down into microplastics, which researchers measured near U.S. coastlines to study possible links to higher rates of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
North Sea pollution / H.A. Cole -- A pollution survey of the Trondheim Fjord, as influenced by sewage and the pulp mill industry / G. Berge, R. Ljøen and K.H. Palmork -- Pollution in the Baltic / B.I.
Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...
Growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, the shadow of the Piper Alpha disaster loomed large over our community. The tragic explosion of the oil rig platform in 1988 claimed the lives of 167 people. Back ...
Rates of Type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease and stroke were higher among residents in 152 U.S. coastal counties near microplastic-polluted oceans, finds a new study in the Journal of the ...