Image shows Lake Tahoe, located along the state line of California and Nevada, USA, undated photo. Researchers from the city of Vienna, Austria, found out that it has more microplastic than in the world's most polluted subtropical ocean. (Newsflash)

US Lake Tahoe Has Most Plastic Waste In New European Study

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:August 24, 2023

The USA's two-million-year-old Lake Tahoe, known for its insanely beautiful blue colour, contains a higher load of microplastics than the world's most polluted oceans. The groundbreaking research led by the…

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Image shows super-Earth Kepler-138 d in the foreground, undated photo. Astronomers from the University of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada, found out that two exoplanets may be mostly water. (NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)/Newsflash)

Hubble Researchers Find Twin Super-Earth Planets With 1,000-Mile-Deep Oceans

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:December 21, 2022

An international team of researchers using the Hubble telescope has found that two Earth-like planets may be largely made of water and covered in oceans 1,000 miles deep. The planets,…

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Picture shows natural and synthetic marine debris in Oahu, Hawaii, in undated footage. SEED's Trash Time Machine uses water and physics to separate natural and synthetic material. (@seed.world/Newsflash)

Breakthrough In Scrubbing Microplastics From The World’s Oceans

• Post author:Alice Amelia Thomas
• Post published:November 24, 2022

Retired US Marine Corps combat engineer shows off a new tool capable of separating microplastics from organic sea matter. The Trash Time Machine (TTM) is an open-source invention created by…

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Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessels operate with USS Delbert D. Black, HMS Bangor, HMS Chiddingfold, and USCGC Robert Goldman in the Arabain Gulf during exercise Phantom Scope on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, in Persian Gulf. (U.S. Navy/Newsflash).

UK And US Navies Exercise With Automated Vessels In Gulf

• Post author:Simona Kitanovska
• Post published:November 15, 2022

This footage shows the UK and the US Navy conducting a military exercise with unmanned surface vessels in the middle of the Arabian Gulf. Newsflash obtained the footage from the…

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Teeth originated in an armored ray that swam the oceans 100 million years ago, according to new research, carried out by a scientific team at Penn State University in the U.S. Undated photo. (SWNS/Newsflash)

All Teeth Come From Single Ancient Sea Predator, According To New Study

• Post author:Simona Kitanovska
• Post published:September 4, 2022

Teeth originated in an armoured ray that swam the oceans 100 million years ago, according to new research. They evolved from jagged spikes along the snout of the primitive sea…

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The scientists detected microplastic particles in each of the sediment samples taken – between 215 and 1596 particles per kilogram of sediment. (AWI/Newsflash)

Plastic Waste Has Turned Deep Sea Into Trash Can Of Oceans

• Post author:Michael Leidig
• Post published:July 29, 2022

The incredible diversity in the deepest levels of the oceans is being threatened with extinction by micro-plastics, a new study has revealed. The shock findings emerged after scientists studied the…

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A light-activated fish-shaped robot collects microplastics as it swims (scale bar is 10 mm). (Adapted from Nano Letters 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01375/Newsflash)

Scientists Create Fish-Shaped Robots To Absorb Microplastics

• Post author:Lee Bullen
• Post published:July 16, 2022

Scientists have created fish-shaped robots to swim around and collect microplastics from the oceans’ nooks and crannies. Microplastics, tiny plastic particles that can be harmful to marine animals when ingested,…

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A dive at the underwater site of the HMS Nasturtium, ship that sank on 28th April 1916, where Heritage Malta completed a net removal project in July, 2021, in Malta.

Shipwrecks Expand Microbial Diversity, New Study Shows

• Post author:Thomas Hochwarter
• Post published:June 27, 2022

The millions of shipwrecks resting in the world’s oceans are increasing the surrounding areas’ microbial richness, according to new research. There are an estimated three million shipwrecks all around the…

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Lush meadows of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica in the Mediterranean sea discovered by the Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology in the German city of Bremen. (HYDRA Marine Sciences GmbH/Newsflash)

Seaweeds Sweet Tooth Saves Carbon Emissions Of 300,000 Cars

• Post author:Thomas Hochwarter
• Post published:May 25, 2022

Worldwide seaweeds are saving the equivalent of carbon dioxide emitted by more than 300,000 cars each year, according to new research - which also shows that the amount of sugar…

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An illustrative image of Greenland, where the ice sheet has lost 4.7 trillion tons of ice over the past 20 years, causing sea levels to rise by 1.2 centimeters. (Newsflash)

Climate Change Causes Greenland Ice Sheet To Lose 4,700 Billion Tonnes Of Ice In 20 Years

• Post author:Lee Bullen
• Post published:February 18, 2022

Climate change has caused the Greenland ice sheet to lose 4,700 billion tonnes of ice over the last 20 years, enough to submerge the USA in half a metre of…

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