Where Science Meets Fiction
Tools tracking ecological health and pollution.
A single liter of seawater collected from the North Pacific Gyre contains, on average, six times more microplastic particles than plankton by count. The ratio inverted sometime in the mid-1990s and has been moving in the wrong direction since. No net, no pump, no ship-based filtration system can meaningfully address particles smaller than 5 millimeters…
The monitoring station bolted to a traffic authority pole records whatever drifts its way at sensor height. At rush hour, the chemistry of the air three meters above the asphalt and the chemistry at sensor height are two different readings from the same event. One of them gets logged. The other one is what people…