A first-of-a-kind research expedition is pioneering the use of mobile laboratories to understand how Europe’s coastal ecosystems are impacted by environmental factors such as pollution, loss of biodiversity, and climate change.
SHIMODA, Oct 31 A boat’s crew casts a net into the seemingly clean waters off Japan’s Izu peninsula, but not to catch fish they are scooping up microplastics to learn more about the pollution’s impact on marine life. Tiny floating fragments from plastic packaging, synthetic clothing.
SHIMODA, Japan A boat's crew casts a net into the seemingly clean waters off Japan's Izu peninsula, but not to catch fish they are scooping up microplastics to learn more about the pollution's impact on marine life. Tiny floating fragments from plastic packaging, synthetic clothing and fishin