In the North, where food prices are notoriously high, beluga whales are a staple community resource. But lately, questions have been raised about the health of the belugas, from the presence of persistent organic pollutants to mercury.
Researchers found that reef manta rays may eat up to 63 pieces of plastic per hour when feeding in Nusa Penida and Komodo National Park, while whale sharks could be consuming up to 137 pieces per hour during seasonal aggregations in Java.
In Louisiana, a Taiwanese industrial giant seems likely to be granted a permit to build a billion-dollar plastics plant. Its proposed emissions could triple levels of cancer-causing chemicals in one of the most toxic areas of the U.S.
Mr Becker's 'L'île Flottante' - or 'Floating Island' - resort bobs about the surface of the lagoon in Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast, on a platform made of around 700,000 plastic bottles and debris.
New legislative efforts to ban plastics are important, but a recent court ruling in Texas reminds us that enforcing existing laws is a crucial part of the plastics fight.
Despite a ban on fracking, Scotland imports shale gas from Pennsylvania for its plastics industry. This has some activists saying 'no fracking here, no fracking anywhere.'
This is part 2 of a 4-part investigation of the science surrounding the chemical BPA and the U.S. regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings.
Talking to Black residents living in communities along and near Route 65 about where they live and their experiences in these places, in the context of their connections to water.
American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.
