On Dec. 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) country office in China was informed of 27 patients with pneumonia of unclear cause in Wuhan — a metropolis with 19 million inhabitants in Hubei province. The municipal health commission reported that many of the infections could be attributed to visits to the fish market, which […]
A cleanup crew recovered 200 tons of trash from just 12 miles of Alaska‘s coastline around Prince William Sound. Gulf of Alaska Keeper (GoAK), a nonprofit dedicated to picking up debris around the state, filled 1,200 “super sacks” and collected thousands of buoys, marine debris specialist Scott Groves said. The group spent a month at […]
An enormous—and unprecedented—amount of plastic waste and other marine debris has been washing up on Hong Kong’s southern beaches in recent weeks. Hong Kong’s shores have been inundated by trash since mid-June.Facebook Local authorities have described the filth as a “glacier of trash,” and that the rubbish from one island could even be seen from […]
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