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Engineered bacteria could break down unrecyclable nylon in clothes
Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the ...
'Back to plastic': Trump pushes for plastic straws as he declares paper ones 'don't work'
President Donald Trump is moving to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper straws "don't work.
Elusive Deep-Sea Fish Mysteriously Rises to Ocean's Surface in 'Extremely Rare' Broad Daylight Sighting
Researchers say the new footage of the deep sea fish may be the first live sighting of the creature in daylight near the ...
Nanotech reveals how harmful microplastics stick to coral reefs
University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step ...
Smithsonian Magazine14h
Only 50 Rice’s Whales Are Left. Can We Do Enough to Protect Them Before It’s Too Late?
Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...
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See a Rare ‘Super Pod’ of More Than 1,500 Risso’s Dolphins Spotted off the Coast of California
Whale-watching tour operators encountered the mass gathering of cetaceans while looking for migrating gray whales ...
Deep-sea creature — with ‘glass’ shell — discovered as new species off Japan. See it
It’s hard to believe that anything could live here, but these deep-sea hydrothermal vents are teaming with life, including species yet to be discovered. In December 2016, researchers operating a ...