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Despite being launched substantial time periods before being found, some bottles have been found physically close to their original launch points, such as a message launched by two girls in 1915 and found in 2012 near Harsens Island, Michigan, U.S., [45] and a ten-year-old girl's message launched into the Indian River Bay in Delaware, U.S. in ...
A plastic bucket used as an open-air flowerpot photodegraded after some years. Photodegradation is the alteration of materials by light. Commonly, the term is used loosely to refer to the combined action of sunlight and air, which cause oxidation and hydrolysis. Often photodegradation is intentionally avoided, since it destroys paintings and ...
Without naming the artwork or the artist, he stated that brush marks in the lace collar of a painting by Velázquez could be more radical than a shark "murkily disintegrating in its tank on the other side of the Thames". [24] Critics have also questioned the ethics of the part of Hirst's oeuvre that involves dead animals. One estimate puts the ...
"When we go out in the ocean or on the surf, we're in the shark's habitat," he adds. "That's where they live. We're enjoying their home and inevitably, it's possible for us to come into contact ...
Marine plastic pollution is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean. Eighty percent of marine debris is plastic.
It’s that time of year again: the thick of summer when sharks have caught America’s attention. Americans are spotting more sharks in the water. Here’s why that’s a good thing
We’re all guilty of refilling our plastic water bottles—but the consequences can be seriously harmful to your health.
Polymer degradation is the reduction in the physical properties of a polymer, such as strength, caused by changes in its chemical composition.Polymers and particularly plastics are subject to degradation at all stages of their product life cycle, including during their initial processing, use, disposal into the environment and recycling. [1]