Unsafe levels of bacteria fester in Pismo Lagoon, group says. Who will clean it up?

The creek is under the jurisdiction of the city of Pismo Beach, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and ...
UN Environment Programme

Cleaning up Quezon City, Philippines: Mayor Josefina “Joy” Belmonte on tackling plastic pollution

Mayor Josefina Belmonte, a 2023 Champion of the Earth laureate, expounds her numerous efforts to tackle plastic pollution ...
Earth.com

Floating ocean plastic will take more than a century to disappear

Floating ocean plastics can take more than 100 years to disappear, breaking into tiny fragments that slowly sink to the seafloor.
Mother Jones

Want Fluoride in Your Water? Too Bad.

I know we’ve talked about fluoride a few times,” Perales said. “If we can just bring forward a vote in the next couple weeks ...

Scientists have puzzled over what happens to plastic as it breaks down in the ocean – our new study helps explain the mystery

Our new study set out to understand what happens to large pieces of floating plastic once they enter the ocean. We developed ...

Plastic pollution could linger at ocean surfaces for over a century, new research finds

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...