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How will climate change affect microplastics already in the environment?

Envirotec Magazine

The three-year PhD project seeks to determine whether future environmental conditions – such as higher UV radiation levels, increased temperatures and acidity in the oceans – will cause plastics to shed more microplastics than they do now. This is important because it replicates real environmental conditions.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

If the sourcing is done carefully, fake fish also should be devoid of the mercury and microplastics that can stem from ocean plastic pollution. Seaweed, on the other hand, which makes up New Wave’s shrimp-mimic, sequesters carbon and reduces ocean acidification.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. Ocean acidification – Surface ocean acidity has already increased by 30 percent since pre-industrial times. The Holocene.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

AGreenLiving

If the sourcing is done carefully, fake fish also should be devoid of the mercury and microplastics that can stem from ocean plastic pollution. Seaweed, on the other hand, which makes up New Wave’s shrimp-mimic, sequesters carbon and reduces ocean acidification.

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