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Plastic Is Building Up in Our Brains — Scientists Say It’s a Global Emergency

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Health & Technology

Plastic Is Building Up in Our Brains — Scientists Say It’s a Global Emergency

1 year ago Curated by John Wysocki

Photo caption: Director of the Marine Institute of Plymouth Professor Richard Thompson analyzes micro-plastics in a laboratory at the University...

Meet the 97-Year-Old Salt-Harvesting Matriarch

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Business

Meet the 97-Year-Old Salt-Harvesting Matriarch

2 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Quintina Ayvar de la Cruz harvesting salt. Photo credit: Leia Marasovich. Article by Elena Valeriote. Modern Farmer -...

Protecting Our Planet: 5 Strategies for Reducing Plastic Waste

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Climate Change: Mitigation & Adaptation

Protecting Our Planet: 5 Strategies for Reducing Plastic Waste

2 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Plastic pollution covers Accra beach in Ghana, West Africa. Photo credit: Muntaka Chasant via Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 4.0....

Scientists Find About A Quarter Million Nanoplastic Particles In Bottled Water

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Health & Technology

Scientists Find About A Quarter Million Nanoplastic Particles In Bottled Water

2 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: About 10 to 100 times more nanoplastics than microplastics, which are slightly larger, were discovered in bottled water,...

In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, new marine ecosystems are flourishing

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Science & Technology

In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, new marine ecosystems are flourishing

2 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: Coastal podded hydroid Aglaophenia pluma and open-ocean gooseneck barnacle Lepas living on floating plastic. Image credit: photo courtesy of the...

Plastic Is Building Up in Our Brains — Scientists Say It’s a Global Emergency

Meet the 97-Year-Old Salt-Harvesting Matriarch

Protecting Our Planet: 5 Strategies for Reducing Plastic Waste

Scientists Find About A Quarter Million Nanoplastic Particles In Bottled Water

In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, new marine ecosystems are flourishing

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