A new study on the amount of plastic pollution floating around the world’s oceans found a lot of garbage but fewer small particles than researchers expected, raising new questions about how litter is interacting with the environment. Scientists from the nonprofit advocacy group 5 Gyrespublished their findings this week in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE. The researchers collected plastic […]
Dec 31 2014 | Posted in
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Independent Television has been broadcasted a report on mercury containing product in Bangladesh on 20, December, 2014 based on South Asian Summit of Mercury-Free Dentistry, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Organized by Asian Center for Environmental Health and Environment and Social Development Organization-ESDO.
Oil from a wrecked tanker is creating a disaster in the waters of Bangladesh’s Sundarbans, the largest contiguous tidal mangrove forest in the world and a haven for a spectacular array of species, including the rareIrrawaddy and Gangetic dolphins and the highly endangered Bengal tiger. “This catastrophe is unprecedented in the Sundarbans, and we don’t know how to tackle this,” […]
Dec 29 2014 | Posted in
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When Spanish scientist Andres Cozar Cabanas compiled the first ever global map of ocean trash last July, he inadvertently uncovered a mystery. Much of the plastic he expected to find bobbing in the oceans, given a quadrupling of plastic production in recent years, had “disappeared.” In a new study, published this week by the journal Royal Society Open Science,a […]
Dec 29 2014 | Posted in
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