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Plastic pollution builds up in Arctic waters
Even though few people live in the Artic, some seas in the region are heavily polluted with plastic because of an Atlantic ocean current which dumps debris there, researchers said Wednesday. Scientists aboard the globe ...
- April 27, 2017
Thailand tries to tackle mass of ocean trash
Thai authorities are trying to clean up a massive, one-kilometer long tangle of trash, officials said Friday, calling it the largest garbage heap to float through the kingdom's waters. The mass of debris was estimated to ...
- February 16, 2017
US backs UN call to save oceans
The United States (US) on Friday joined all 192 other United Nations (UN) member states in releasing a “Call to Action” to save the oceans but disassociated itself from joint efforts to combat climate change. The declaration ...
- June 11, 2017
Myanmar’s ‘smiling’ Irrawaddy dolphins on brink of extinction
Tears fill Maung Lay’s eyes as he describes losing the dolphin he knew since his childhood, the latest casualty of a battle against pollution and electrofishing that may see the species disappear in Myanmar. Loved for ...
- January 19, 2017