Ecosystem Services: Nature’s Gifts That Help Us Thrive

Coca-Cola products will be responsible for up to 1.33 billion pounds of plastic waste making its way into the planet’s oceans and waterways each year by 2030 — enough to fill the stomachs of more than 18 million blue whales, according to a new report by nonprofit Oceana. Coca-Cola’s World With Waste projects that the […]
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As our planet has experienced increased warming over the last several decades due to greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, glaciers around the world have been shrinking. An international team of scientists has found that global heating has, over the past two decades, melted enough of Greenland’s glacial ice that 1,006.6 more […]
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IN A NUTSHELL 🧊 A23a, the world’s oldest and largest iceberg, has broken free from its icy trap and is drifting northward. 🌊 Encountering a Taylor Column, an oceanographic phenomenon, A23a was trapped in a swirling maelstrom before breaking free. 🌿 The iceberg’s journey releases crucial mineral nutrients and fresh water, impacting marine ecosystems both […]
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