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I picked up five balloons during a recent beach walk. If you’ve spent time at the beach or on the ocean, chances are you’ve seen stray balloons too. That’s why the @surfridersandiego Rise Above Plastics team is advocating for lighter-than-air balloons bans … Continue reading →

From the Cambridge Dictionary: 𝗡𝗼𝘂𝗻 [ C ] formal US /ˌ𝔨ɑː𝔫.𝔣𝔩əˈɡ𝔯𝔢ɪ.ʃə𝔫/  UK  /ˌ𝔨ɒ𝔫.𝔣𝔩əˈɡ𝔯𝔢ɪ.ʃə𝔫/ 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝗿, 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲: •𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭-𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

Have you heard? Apparently, plastic straws aren’t a problem. Yet, when I walked the beach in Carlsbad on Friday, I found all of these. During a White House announcement, Trump stated that paper straws “explode” and added, “I don’t think … Continue reading →

Did you know that ferns are among the oldest plant groups on Earth and that the earliest known fern fossil dates back millions of years before the dinosaurs? Artificial greenery has been around a long time too. For example, ancient … Continue reading →

World Bee Day, celebrated on May 20, prompted me to revisit Bombus Plasticus and explore new research regarding the impacts of plastics on bees. Researchers from the University of Reading identified microplastics as one of the top emerging threats to … Continue reading →

Blue whales, the largest creatures on Earth, ingest an estimated 10 million pieces—or about 95 pounds—of microplastic daily, according to research published in Nature Communications.  Most of these plastic particles come from their diet of krill, which consume plastic both … Continue reading →

As legend has it, anyone who disturbs a tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh will be cursed, and a vengeful mummy will wreak havoc until a hero can stop it. This plastic mummy and the enormous amount of plastic debris unleashed … Continue reading →