- The Biggest Source of Plastic Trash You've Never Heard of
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
How plastic waste is used on the farm for agriculture.
- In search of the unseen: an investigation into plastics in our oceans
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
One of the biggest threats facing marine life is the 'microplastic' particles found in ocean ecosystems from bottom to top of food chains. Just back from a voyage of environmental exploration in the tropical Atlantic sampling the waters to build up a global picture of this ubiquitous pollutant, Ana Stanic writes of the joys and trials of life on the waves, and the need to keep our oceans clean.
- Plastics, tiny penises, and human evolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Setting aside the question of whether plastics (or obesity or carbonated corn syrup-laced beverages or the presence of step-dads or hormones in beef or any other factor) are behind changes in our patterns of sexual maturity, what about the possible future? Does evolutionary theory support the idea that xenoestrogens and other endocrine disruption could lead us limping to a kind of slow rolling human apocalypse?
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