Tiny Plastic Beads Are Invading The Great Lakes. Here’s What Scientists Are Doing To Stop It
Several months ago, scientists warned that tiny microbeads, a common ingredient in facial cleansers, were flowing into the Great Lakes. Now, a new study provides evidence of the microplastics in the world’s largest surface freshwater source, and gives scientists a fighting chance to get microbeads out of consumer products.
UCLA Report Urges New Global Policy Effort To Tackle Crisis Of Plastic Litter In Oceans
Plastic litter is one of the most significant problems facing the world’s marine environments. Yet in the absence of a coordinated global strategy, an estimated 20 million tons of plastic litter enter the ocean each year.
China’s ‘number one beach’ swamped by rising tide of pollution
A stretch of sand in South China, Silver Beach – once dubbed “The Number One Beach in the World”- has fallen victim to China’s growing pollution crisis.
Keeping The Coasts of Lofoten, Vesterålen And Senja Free From Oil And Gas Exploration
Norway, one of the world’s largest oil and gas developers, has committed to protecting valuable areas of the ocean from being impacted by petroleum activities, putting the value of nature in front of the need for oil.
The Ocean Is Broken
Nothing could have prepared mariner Ivan Macfadyen for the devastation all around him as he sailed the Pacific.
Detox: How People Power is Cleaning Up Fashion
Around the world a growing movement of people are using their creativity, design skills and purchasing power to demand fashion without pollution. A Greenpeace video.
Greenland Opens Way For Uranium And Rare Earths Mining
Greenland’s parliament has voted to end a decades-long prohibition on mining for radioactive materials such as uranium, further opening up the country to investors from Australia to China eager to tap its vast mineral resources.
Gazprom Drilling for Arctic Oil With Second-Hand Rig
Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya platform, the advance guard of the coming expansion of Russia’s state energy corporations into the Arctic, is a cobbled together bric-a-brac of second-hand parts, some of which date to 1984.
California Finds More Instances of Offshore Fracking
The oil production technique known as fracking is more widespread and frequently used in the offshore platforms and man-made islands near some of California’s most populous and famous coastal communities than state officials believed.