by Anna Turns | Jun 5, 2024
The search for the perfect wetsuit: is there one that doesn’t harm the planet? – Guardian Neoprene is made from toxic chemicals, hard to recycle and, with 400,000 tonnes made a year, a growing problem. So can surfers and swimmers find green wetsuits? I have been...
by Anna Turns | Nov 17, 2022
Blood, guts and suspiciously mangled fins: inside a porpoise autopsy – Guardian On a steel table at London Zoo sleuths are trying to solve a tricky whodunit: what is killing the UK’s cetaceans? The corpse lies on the stainless steel table. Next to it, a tray of...
by Anna Turns | May 18, 2022
Accidental discovery that scallops love ‘disco’ lights leads to new fishing technique – Guardian Scientists hail breakthrough that could maximise catches while reducing damage caused by fishing An unusual technique for catching scallops that was stumbled upon...
by Sue Thomason | Apr 19, 2022
Mapping Our ‘Pollution Landscape’ -Resurgence & Ecologist Toxic chemicals like lead have a global reach, writes Anna Turns. Pollution causes more deaths than war, hunger or malaria, but often the most serious impacts are invisible and far away. In the...
by Sue Thomason | Apr 19, 2022
Green chemistry: can these eco-innovations help clean up our chemical footprint? – Positive News Chemical pollution has passed the safe limit for humanity, scientists announced this week. That’s the bad news. The good news is that green chemists the world over...
