Two things stood out to me when we visited Plumb Beach on Halloween. The first was the unusual shape of the beach, the second, the types of garbage we found there. As Professor Branco had previously mentioned, the beach sand had been distributed unevenly due to the way the water moves sand, but additionally, erosion […]
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The study of marine plastics has a cyclic theme as cyclic debates focus on cleaning up plastic, spinning and gathering at two polar ends of an ocean current. To date, the majority of those debates, especially among government officials, have not led to the implementation of a solution to the pressing marine problem. However, the […]
We’d like to mention, first of all, that the albatross is among the largest extant birds on earth. The images of the albatross on the Midway Atoll that had consumed entire film canisters are therefore mildly misleading; much plastic consumption occurs in much smaller doses. And the health issues that arise might not be so much the […]
What do you see in this photograph? Do you see the dead bird? All that seems to be left are feathers, bones and bits of plastic. The carcass is lying in a pristine green field without any visual evidence of human activity. Though in a state of decay, the carcass appears to be relatively intact […]
