Plastic straws bans won't save the oceans
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By Adam Minter 12 June 2018 — 7:30pm Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size New York's top cocktail bars are…
By Adam Minter 12 June 2018 — 7:30pm Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size New York's top cocktail bars are…
In a week where we celebrate World Environment Day, World Oceans Day and Canada is hosting the G7 summit, governments and…
You may not be getting a straw with that drink much longer. Or at least, not a plastic one.
On a street in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, a seafood café is setting up for the evening rush.
[embedded content] Around 80 sopping wet, black plastic bags lined the floor of an operating room in Thailand last week after…
Verbot von Plastikmüll 72 Prozent der Deutschen fänden ein Verbot von Plastikgeschirr gut.
Some 80 plastic bags extracted from within a whale are being laid out in Songkhla, Thailand, in this still image captured from…
A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston In Thailand, 17 Pounds Of Plastic Kills Whale, Highlighting Ocean Pollution Facebook…
[embedded content] Around 80 sopping wet, black plastic bags lined the floor of an operating room in Thailand last week after…
[embedded content] Around 80 sopping wet, black plastic bags lined the floor of an operating room in Thailand last week after…
[embedded content] Around 80 sopping wet, black plastic bags lined the floor of an operating room in Thailand last week after…
Around 80 sopping wet, black plastic bags lined the floor of an operating room in Thailand last week after they were pulled…
[embedded content] Around 80 sopping wet, black plastic bags lined the floor of an operating room in Thailand last week after…
On a street in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, a seafood café is setting up for the evening rush.
HONG KONG — Hundreds of turtles, dolphins and whales become stranded every year on Thailand’s beaches after plastic impedes…
Maya Bay, an iconic Thai paradise made famous by hit Leonardo DiCaprio film ‘The Beach’, was closed on Friday for four months…
Stand: 09:36 Uhr | Lesedauer: 2 Minuten Fünf Tage lang keinen Plastikmüll produzieren – geht das? Tiere verenden qualvoll an…
This story is part of Planet or Plastic? —our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis.
A year or so ago, I decided to start using less plastic. I bought an insulated water bottle for my morning coffee, as well as…
Brasileiros participam de trabalho internacional para aumentar a capacidade da PETase de decompor o polietileno tereftalato (PET…
Science Says: Amount of straws, plastic pollution is huge WASHINGTON — Cities and nations are looking at banning plastic straws…
The Smarter way to get your business news - Subscribe to BloombergQuint on WhatsApp If all plastic bottles humans use in a year…
Our understanding of Earth — and how we’re changing it — just keeps expanding. Earth Day turns 48 this Sunday, April 22, and…
Earth Day turns 48 this Sunday, April 22. When Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.) founded it in 1970, his hope was to make the…
People around the world will come together this weekend to celebrate the planet and to take action to protect it.
WASHINGTON — Cities and nations are looking at banning plastic straws and stirrers in hopes of addressing the world’s plastic…
This December 2016 photo provided by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, a dead shearwater bird…
WASHINGTON — The United Kingdom is proposing a ban on disposable plastic straws.
Salpics32/Dreamstime.com The United Kingdom has been on a nanny-state bender lately.
| Lesedauer: 2 Minuten Fünf Tage lang keinen Plastikmüll produzieren – geht das? Tiere verenden qualvoll an unserem Plastikmüll.
An accidental finding led to the creation of a mutant bacteria that breaks down plastic, the Guardian reports.
An accidental finding led to the creation of a mutant bacteria that breaks down plastic, the Guardian reports.
Credit: In Muncar, on the coast of East Java, Indonesia, fishers still make their living the traditional way, launching from…
Credit: In Muncar, on the coast of East Java, Indonesia, fishers still make their living the traditional way, launching from…
Home Earth Environment April 13, 2018 April 13, 2018 by Sylvain Charlebois And Tony Robert Walker, The Conversation There are…
There are increasing concerns about the use of plastics in our day-to-day lives.
Wissen Donnerstag, 12. April 2018 Sein Körper ist zehn Meter lang, aber komplett ausgemergelt.
Sie haben eine Biotonne - wie schön. Doch wenn Sie darin aus Versehen Kunststoff entsorgen, landet Mikroplastik auf unseren Äcker…
Being the globally aware, socially conscious person that you are, surely you’d love to up your game when it comes to…
You already know how bad plastic bottles are for the planet. We go through a million of them per minute and are generally…
Nie wurde mehr mikroskopisch kleines Plastik in einem Fluss entdeckt, als im Mersey bei Manchester.
Nie wurde mehr mikroskopisch kleines Plastik in einem Fluss entdeckt, als im Mersey bei Manchester.
El 3 de marzo, el usuario de YouTube, cheeseandjamsandwich, publicó un video de dos minutos y medio de él mismo nadando a través…
Nicht nur Umweltforscher fürchten die Konsequenzen menschlicher Einflüsse auf die Tier- und Pflanzenwelt in den Ozeanen…
Home Earth Environment March 8, 2018 March 8, 2018 by Karl Gruber, Particle Coral reefs are not getting a break.
Το άρθρο δημοσιεύθηκε αρχικά στο Motherboard. Στις 3 Μαρτίου, ένας χρήστης του YouTube, με όνομα cheeseandjamsandwich, ανέβασε έν…
On March 3, YouTube user cheeseandjamsandwich posted a two and a half minute video of himself swimming through an ocean of…
Tuesday, 27 February, 2018 - 14:36 OSOF welcomes the call by Greenpeace and the Jane Goodall Institute New Zealand, urging a…
China’s highest planning body, the National Development and Reform Commission(NDRC), announced on January 5 that it is looking…
[Opinion column written by Joleah Lamb] There are more than 11 billion pieces of plastic debris on coral reefs across the Asia-Pa…
El océano está increíblemente vulnerable estos días. Los humanos producen miles de millones de toneladas de basura plástica y…
In our study, published Thursday in Science, we examined more than 124,000 reef-building corals and found that 89 percent of…
This article originally appeared on Motherboard The ocean is incredibly vulnerable at the moment.
The ocean is incredibly vulnerable at the moment. Humans are producing billions of tons of plastic waste and climate change is…
There are more than 11 billion pieces of plastic debris on coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific, according to our new research…
Mehr als 120.000 Korallen haben Forscher für eine neue Studie untersucht. Sie sagen: Plastikmüll macht Meerestiere deutlich anfäl…
There are more than 11 billion pieces of plastic debris on coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific, according to our new research…
Photo Joleah Lamb began her career as a coral biologist on the Great Barrier Reef.
We know plastic trash in the oceans kills birds, turtles, and whales, but now, scientists have found it’s making corals sick…
TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough made his viewers weep last month with an exposé on how plastics are polluting the oceans…
DAVOS, Switzerland (Jan. 23, 2018)... Each year more than eight million tons of plastics pollute the ocean, forming mammoth, so-c…
Home Chemistry Materials Science January 23, 2018 January 23, 2018 by Paul Kovach, University of Pittsburgh Each year more than…
Estados Unidos fue el primer país que decidió prohibir estos contaminantes tan tóxicos y peligrosos para la vida marina y ahora…
T.V. naturalist Sir David Attenborough made his viewers weep last month with an exposé on how plastics are polluting the oceans…
Rubber gloves litter a desolate location. Photo Credit: Charles Eckert January 16, 2018 11:54 AM T.V.
T.V. naturalist Sir David Attenborough made his viewers weep last month with an expose on how plastics are polluting the oceans…
Continue reading the main story Foto Read in English LONDRES — Son pequeñas, coloridas y de apariencia inofensiva, pero estas…
A simple vista pueden parecer inofensivas, pero estas pequeñas esferas de plástico presentes en geles de ducha, cremas…
Many of those companies have pledged to voluntarily phase out use of the pellets.
Last updated 00:35, December 30 2017 FAIRFAX AUSTRALIA Bali's beaches are vomiting rubbish again.
Rubbish on the beaches of Bali. Rubbish on the beaches of Bali. It's the monsoon season in Indonesia, which means Bali's iconic…
More In early December 2017 the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi announced a resolution on marine litter and…
In early December 2017 the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi announced a resolution on marine litter and…
–, a world leading innovator of point-of-use water purifying technologies, today announced it will start business operations in…
1. Only 29 percent of electronic waste is recycled. Given the flood of enticing deals for smartphones, laptops and other…
Up to 12 million tonnes of plastic enters our oceans each year. Residues of plastic are routinely found in fish, seabirds and…
Plastics are abundant in our oceans. Now scientists have found that corals — which already faces numerous threats and have…
Plastics are abundant in our oceans. Now scientists have found that corals — which already faces numerous threats and have…
Earth’s oceans have a big plastic problem. They receive roughly 8 million metric tons of plastic waste every year, much of…
Urban rivers are a key source of the plastic waste plaguing many marine ecosystems.
Dozens of girls and young women in countries around the globe are proving you don’t need superpowers to fight for justice…
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Store kæmpefirmaer bærer ansvaret for store dele af den plast, der ender i havene, advarer Greenpeace.
Ved første øjekast ligner det for mange formentlig et billede af en lille søhest, som med sin hale uskyldigt omfavner en vatpind.
A week-long beach clean up has exposed the companies most responsible for plastic pollution after an audit of plastic waste…
Source: Greenpeace – Headline: The Greenpeace Philippines and #breakfreefromplastic movement audit, the first of its kind in…
Few people get to witness the breadth and wonder of underwater life, from coral to kelp to fish and sea anemones.