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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
A Washington State University research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend to move through the water supply, especially in fresh water, or settle out in wastewater treatment plants, where they end up as sludge, in landfills, and often as fertilizer.
The winter of 2019-2020 was much drier than usual in California, as evidenced by the dearth of snow in the mountains.
Scientists have recorded more snow on the South Island glaciers this year, but they warn it is simply a temporary break rather than any good news on the climate change front.
Our domestic recycling infrastructure was never developed, so there was no economical or efficient way to handle recycling when the market disappeared.
In order to know why an ice age ends, we need to know when it ended. Now, new research is working to solve one of the enigmas in palaeoclimatology.
Scientists have discovered an extensive body of freshwater off the Canterbury coast between Timaru and Ashburton.
