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Deadly Alert: Masses of Plastic Waste Found on Camel Guts
Eriksen and Wernery said that massive lumps of plastic wastes, as big as a medium-sized suitcase are found in ribcages of dead camel s guts.
Wernery, a veterinary microbiologist based at the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory in Dubai said that of the 30,000 dead camels that he and his colleagues have examined since 2008, 300 of these had guts that contained three to 64 kilograms of plastic wastes which researchers dubbed as polybezoars , the plastic variation from the naturally occurring hair and plant fiber bezoars.
Camels mistake plastics for food, thus they search for food and eat plastic wastes that are scattered into trees and along roadsides.
Red Sea is being feared. The tanker is a 45-year old ship named
FSO Safer that is slowly rusting in its place off Yemen s western coast.
Its hold contains one million oil barrels, and it has been neglected by the owners for over five years. The old ship is a danger to the waters ecosystems.
Due to the war between the Houthi rebels and forces from Saudi, the Yemeni company could not access the ship nor repair it. So far, the rebel forces refused intervention from the UN.
Environmental experts say that its 34 storage tanks will eventually be swallowed by the sea, which will cause a disaster four-fold worse compared to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
man-made barrier surrounding the Earth in space.
Also, tests confirmed that the barrier is affecting weather in space beyond our atmosphere. This means that human activity has been affecting space, as well.
This prompted scientists to propose that a geological epoch be named after humanity due to our severe influence. They want to call this epoch the Anthropocene. However, it is good to know that the bubble we created in space is beneficial to us.
Eight years ago, two space probes were launched by NASA. These Van Allen probes were the ones that detected the strange low-frequency barrier while they were monitoring charged particles that were caught in our planet s magnetic field.