[ad_1] What if the “big ocean trash patches” were just the tip of the iceberg? While more than ten million tons of plastic waste enters the sea each year, we actually only see 1%, the portion that floats on the ocean surface. What happens to the 99% lost has not …
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[ad_1] The idea of life on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has fascinated scientists for decades, but it was in the 1990s, with sharp images from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, that researchers took it one step further. to believe in its possibility. NASA has now remastered some of Galileo’s impressive images of …
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[ad_1] Researchers writing on Science have reported the highest levels of microplastics observed on the seabed to date, finding up to 1.9 million fibers and fragments per square meter of seabed. For some time, scientists have struggled to find the 99 percent “lost” plastic that ends up in our oceans: …
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[ad_1] The levels of biodiversity in the world’s oceans have remained largely unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, according to a new study published in Science. The conclusion that marine biodiversity has been stable over time and has not multiplied over the past 200 million years challenges existing assumptions …
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