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A Brief Timeline of Plastic

It’s commonly rephrased that plastic, once introduced to the environment as garbage, never degrades and will contribute to pollution for a very long time. Exactly how long is that though? How long does plastic survive for in our environment? There are basically two nightmare scenarios in terms of plastic pollution in the ocean and wider […]

Are Marine Protected Areas as Useful as They Seem?

With our ocean becoming a less hospitable place everyday, organizations have begun to set up areas in the ocean to protect marine life by keeping waste and humans out. As we begin to study the effects of these protected areas, it turns out they might be doing less good than we thought they were. Some […]