WorldPingEvery year, about 50 million metric tons of plastic is dumped into the environment. This waste entangles, chokes and poisons wildlife worldwide, including sable shearwaters living on the remote Australian island of Lord Howe.
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WorldPingIn a study published in Macromolecules, researchers introduce a novel polymer that could simplify how materials are applied, removed and recycled by eliminating several complex processing steps used today.
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WorldPingThey spotted the first mat of Sargassum seaweed several miles out in Biscayne Bay.
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WorldPingA team of researchers reports that they may have found rock containing some of the earliest forms of microbial life on Earth. Their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes the biosignatures found in this 3.
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WorldPingStone tools from a lakeside site in Saudi Arabia hint that Neanderthals were adapted to the arid Arabian interior, not just to cold places.
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WorldPingTen years since Team GB clinched women's hockey gold at the Rio Olympics, BBC Sport looks back at the legacy of that historic win.
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WorldPingTourists return to England having won just two of their last 13 Test series amid rapidly changing personnel Last Friday was a glorious anniversary for Pakistani cricket, 10 years on from a 10-wicket win against England at the Oval.
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