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Scientists have puzzled over what happens to plastic as it breaks down in the ocean – our new study helps explain the mystery

Scientists have puzzled over what happens to plastic as it breaks down in the ocean – our new study helps explain the mystery

Some plastic pollution lingers at the ocean’s surface for more than a century.

24.10.2025 1

The Conversation

Kate Spencer

As floodwaters rise, toxic contaminants released from old landfills pose more of a hazard to nature and to us

Extensive flooding of the River Thames and its tributaries across south-east England in February 2014 was caused by extraordinary weather...

09.12.2024 2

The Conversation

Kate Spencer