Tag: Biodiversity
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Silent Killers: The Danger of Plastic Bags to Marine Life
In marine environments, many animals confuse the plastic littering the oceans for food, including sea turtles. One in three leatherback sea turtles have plastic in their stomach, most often a plastic bag …
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BLM to Examine Air Pollution Before Approving Oil & Gas Wells in Colorado
BLM will reexamine the air pollution potential of 34 oil and gas projects involving more than 1,300 wells proposed on Colorado’s Western Slope. The agency will also establish and maintain a publicly-accessible …
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Paying With Plastic: Recycling Earns Public Transit Fares in China
Rather than having to implement and organize costly task forces to retrieve discarded garbage, China hopes to limit federal spending on resources recovery by collecting plastic bottles directly from citizens with the use of the subway recycling machine…
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5 Gyres Institute Sets Sail to Study Plastic Pollution in Lake Michigan
“Having been the first and only group to sail all five of the world’s oceans conducting similar research on plastic pollution, we’ve turned our attention to these important freshwater ecosystems …”
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New Poll Shows Californians Strongly Oppose Fracking
“There’s strong public support for a moratorium on this dangerous practice. We need to stop the oil industry’s fracking expansion now, while there’s still time to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink and the climate we depend on.”