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The Underappreciated Importance of Mangroves
Mangroves. That most unique of ecologies, straddling water and land; a literal border between systems, generating its own along the way – semi-aquatic forests that consist mostly of submerged vegetation, generally existing on the boundaries of seas and other wetlands.
Microplastics – what’s the risk to land, our food, and our health?
We have been rightly focused on the risks to water from plastics and microplastics, especially rivers, costs and open seas. The fragments seen so vividly in the stomachs of seabirds and fish in A Plastic Ocean show that they present a real hazard to biodiversity, and the food chain, ultimately leading to us!
Plastic: It’s Not All the Same
In our continuing effort to provide educational resources on plastic pollution and sustainability, we thought we would address one of the most common questions we receive: Isn’t plastic all the same?