Biodegradable gillnets could help rid the ocean of ghost fishing
Researchers have found that biodegradable gillnets catch fish as well as conventional nylon nets—and more quickly lose their ability to entangle animals when discarded at sea.
New way to make plastic from carbon dioxide and plants
This could represent a low-carbon alternative to the petroleum-derived PET plastics commonly used to make bottles.
The best places to pick up ocean plastic aren’t the big garbage patches
Ideally, if plastic collectors were placed offshore near coastal population centers, they could remove nearly one-third of plastic in the ocean over the next 10 years
90 percent of seabirds are eating plastic
Few people would be surprised to hear that there’s lots of plastic in the oceans, and that this is a bad thing.
Are tiny plastic pieces rearranging microscopic ocean life?
The plague of plastics in the ocean yields its share of striking images.
Plastic ingestion by seabirds is worse than you thought
Everyone has heard of the so-called Pacific Garbage Patch.
