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Florida is one of America's highest generators of plastic waste
Palm Beach Post via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThat amount is roughly the equivalent of dumping two garbage trucks full of plastic into the oceans...
Heading to beach for Memorial Day weekend? Check water quality near Tallahassee
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoThese large floating clumps, patches, rafts, or "blobs" can stretch for miles across the ocean. The rafts provide habitats for crab, shrimp, sea turtles and fish. Tiny organisms ...
Florida has made progress protecting its coral reefs. Now lawmakers must maintain it.
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoThis opinion piece was distributed by The Invading Sea website (www.theinvadingsea.com), which posts...
‘Crazy’ ocean heat bleaching corals so perilously, scientists hope for hurricanes to cool things off
The Journal Times· 2 days agoOcean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to...
UF med students: Microplastics are a microscopic menace to Florida and coastal residents
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOn a larger scale, policy changes aimed at reducing levels of pollution in our environment should be...
Researchers investigate mercury concentrations in fish and wildlife on a global scale
Phys.org· 7 hours ago"An important provision of the Minamata Convention on Mercury is to monitor and evaluate the...
What Health Risks Do Microplastics Pose?
Medscape· 4 days agoPlastic and associated chemicals are responsible for widespread pollution, contaminating aquatic (marine and freshwater), terrestrial, and atmospheric...
How the Shipping Industry Is Trying to Cut Its Billion Tons of CO2 Emissions
Bloomberg· 18 hours agoShipping’s global regulator is pushing the industry to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by...
A green energy invention will be tested on Lake Erie this summer. How it works
Erie Times News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoDana Massing can be reached at dmassing@timesnews.com. This article originally appeared on Erie...
Ready for Release: Sea turtle rehabbed in Florida makes full recovery
WTSP-TV Tampa· 5 days agoThe animal came in with ailments from the cold but is ready to go into the Atlantic Ocean.