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A rubbish truck of plastic in the ocean every minute  -  and how you can help

With the ebb and flow of the tides, thousands of miles of coastline around the UK testify to the devastation that plastic pollution is having on the marine environment. The oceans are at their choking point, for every mile of beach surveyed there are 159 plastic bottles found washed up.
Fiona Nicholls - 17 November, 2016 - 11:09 - Comments

A deposit return scheme for Scotland?

A truckload of plastic waste enters our oceans every minute.When I first heard this statistic I couldn’t believe it. But the evidence is all around us - from tiny microbeads in our toothpaste to images of seabirds with stomachs full of plastic. Plastic pollution is out of control.
alice.hunter - 11 November, 2016 - 17:55 - Comments

VICTORY! Massive new Ocean Sanctuary established off Antarctica!

Today, the largest marine protected area in the world was created in the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica. This is a HUGE victory for the whales, penguins, and toothfish that live there and for the millions of people standing up to protect our oceans.
Willie - 27 October, 2016 - 21:03 - Comments

10 big reasons a new runway at Heathrow is bad for the UK

1. A new runway will fuel climate changeThis month the world ratified the most ambitious climate agreement ever. The Paris agreement couldn’t come soon enough- 2016 was the hottest year on record and the Arctic sea ice reached the second lowest minimum ever.Heathrow would fuel more climate change, creating over 50% more flights at what is already...
India Thorogood - 24 October, 2016 - 17:59 - Comments

10 good reasons to protect whales

Killing whales for food has been happening for millennia. But it was commercial whaling – turning whales into barrels of oil for profit – that led to the wholesale destruction of most of the world’s populations of big whales.
Willie - 21 October, 2016 - 12:42 - Comments

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