Jul 20, 2020 | Science & Technology
By Gilbert Wong “I was surprised. The streams here are small and New Zealand is supposed to be clean, but the levels were the same as the Danube and the Rhine.” Nadezhda Dikareva is an expert in something she wishes she didn’t have to be. Arguably she is the most...
Jun 20, 2019 | Science & Technology
By Anna Robuck A new study led by Kieran D. Cox and researchers at the University of Victoria in British Columbia confirms a logical but cringe-worthy conclusion: humans are consuming plastic. The researchers estimate that humans are eating about 250 pieces of...
Mar 7, 2019 | Science & Technology
By Julie Anne Hope We are now living in an age of plastic and really struggling to deal with the plastic waste we produce globally as it is extremely durable and does not degrade. It has been estimated that up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic end up in the marine...