Grist
OCTOBER 17, 2022
But unfolding alongside the “macroplastic” pollution crisis is another threat caused by much smaller particles: microplastics. Microplastics — tiny plastic fragments that are less than 5 millimeters in diameter, a little less than one-third the size of a dime — have become ubiquitous in the environment.
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 15, 2021
The Baltic Sea had the highest levels of microplastics in Europe, double the amount in the Mediterranean?. • New research from the round-the-world yacht race The Ocean Race* has found microplastics, and in particular microfibres, to be prevalent across the length and breadth of the continent. fragmented fishing gear and lines.
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Business Green
MAY 25, 2022
BloombergNEF report says investment in electrification and carbon capture and storage could slash emissions across the petrochemical industry. It is a crucial question given the sector's out-sized carbon footprint and critical role in so many global supply chains. A low-carbon petrochemical sector will require circular economy action.
Green Business Bureau
JANUARY 18, 2023
Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. The Holocene.
Elemental Excelerator
MARCH 19, 2019
Our energy systems will be increasingly decarbonized and distributed, with variable and firm low-carbon energy sources gaining increasing market share. But agriculture can also be a carbon sink, where carbon is stored (sequestered) in both crops and soil. Reduce waste by 70% by 2030 , in line with the Aloha+ Challenge.
AGreenLiving
OCTOBER 30, 2019
Over 90% of the plastics found in the ocean is comprised of microplastics, which commonly end up ingested by aquatic animals, often killing them through choking or toxicity. In 2016 the Environmental Protection Agency found that aluminum cans contain three times the amount of recycled content than plastic.
Grist
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Her recent book Back To Earth pairs fun astronaut trivia (you can take a “shower” by “gently squeezing hot water out of the straw of a drink bag directly onto your body and watching it coat you like a second skin”) with facts about pressing environmental issues — climate change, microplastics, and the insect apocalypse. “I NASA / Joel Kowsky.
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