May 6, 2025 – Earth
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URI experts discuss the price of convenience: plastics and forever chemicals
University of Rhode Island Professors J.P. Walsh and Rainer Lohmann discussed the wide-ranging impacts of ocean plastics and PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” in a recent public lecture at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus.
Continue reading "URI experts discuss the price of convenience: plastics and forever chemicals"Scientists call for a global science panel to address threats from chemical pollution
An international group of scientists is proposing a global intergovernmental science-policy body for informing policymakers and the public on chemicals and waste.
Continue reading "Scientists call for a global science panel to address threats from chemical pollution"GSO student finds chemical contaminants in seabirds from Narragansett Bay, Massachusetts Bay, Cape Fear
GSO student Anna Robuck found high levels of the PFAS in seabirds from offshore Massachusetts and coastal Rhode Island and North Carolina.
Continue reading "GSO student finds chemical contaminants in seabirds from Narragansett Bay, Massachusetts Bay, Cape Fear"GSO scientists discover abundance of plastic built up in sea ice collected in the Arctic’s Northwest Passage
A research team, led by the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, recently returning from a groundbreaking, 18-day expedition aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden has made a discovery related to plastics in the Arctic Ocean.
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