Into the deep: The effect of human activity miles below sea level
Marine scientists who studied crustaceans from three Pacific Ocean trenches, including the Mariana Trench, have discovered the depth of the influence of human activity on ocean ecosystems. Shrimp-like amphipods feeding at the bottom of the trenches were found to have elevated levels of carbon-14, which researchers attributed to nuclear bomb…
After the disaster: Studying what remains at Chernobyl
The Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union in 1986 is considered the most horrific peacetime nuclear disaster in history. More than 100,000 people had to permanently relocate because of dangerous radiation levels, and a 1,000-square-mile Exclusion Zone was established. Now, more than 30 years later, what is happening in…
Floating trash collector heads for Great Pacific Garbage Patch
A 24-year-old Dutch college dropout has designed something that just might help save the oceans from plastic trash. A man named Boyan Slat raised more than $30 million to build an ocean-cleaning machine. He started a nonprofit in the Netherlands called Ocean Cleanup. More than 60 engineers and scientists work…
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