The ocean is full of tiny plastic particles – we found a way to track them with satellites. Above: Plastic fragments washed onto Schiavonea beach in Calabria, Italy, in a 2019 storm. Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB ...
18 YEAR-OLD Fionn Ferreira, of Cork, Ireland, won the $50K Google Science Fair prize for his project that examined and proposed a new method for extracting microplastics (plastic particles less than 5mm in diameter) from water. Microplastics or ...