Friday, 4 October 2019

News in brief - Friday 4th October

Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
A large free-floating boom has successfully captured plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; much of the plastic in our oceans comes from the fishing industry or has been discarded from ships

Mangroves damaged in Australia 
A scientific trip to monitor mangroves has found 400km of badly damaged mangroves the north of Australia's Northern Territory and Queensland states; the remote area appears to have experienced rising sea levels, heatwaves, and back to back cyclones which has caused the devastation