Say No To The Straw
It is almost too heart-breaking to watch. In the YouTube video, marine biologists from Texas A&M University extract a plastic straw from a sea turtles’ nose as the creature winces in…
Image credit: Jeff Schmaltz (NASA Earth Observatory) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Gulf of Mexico’s Hypoxic Zone
Last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recorded the largest hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico since monitoring began 32 years ago. Hypoxic waters, often referred to…
