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Bookmark Hooray! The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Become a Thriving Ecosystem, Scientists…
As elite distance swimmer Ben Lecomte approached the edge of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, he started finding more and more of something unexpected — a lot of life.

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Hooray! The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Become a Thriving Ecosystem, Scientists…
As elite distance swimmer Ben Lecomte approached the edge of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, he started finding more and more of something unexpected — a lot of life.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Coral found to prefer eating microplastic to natural food
Astrangia. Credit: Stephen Cairns et al. An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary, ZooKeys (2012). DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.227.3612. Creative Commons…

July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments
Bookmark Washington Monthly | The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution
Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames,…

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark Plastic plankton, the Anthropocene’s emblematic “microorganism” – We Make Money Not Art
Mandy Barker, Ophelia medustica. Specimen collected from Glounthaune shoreline, Cove of Cork, Ireland, (Pram wheel), 2015. Series: Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals, 2015 In 1816, John Vaughan Thompson was posted to…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Fatberg 'autopsy' reveals growing health threat to Londoners | UK news |…
Fatbergs, the congealed mass of fat and discarded items that are increasingly blocking Britain’s sewers, are the consequence of the plastic crisis in Britain and contain potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria, tests…

April 24 2018, 4:34pm | Comments
Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments
Bookmark Planet Zoo
Look, I wouldn’t trade the 21st century for any other. We have toilet paper and vitamin-fortified milk and a measles vaccine. We can buy avocados in Fairbanks in January. But sometimes,…

September 27 2010, 5:15am | Comments

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