Environment

The ocean litter problem is of such magnitude that the solutions are extremely disparate. Here we present a list of ideas and initiatives that aim to end plastic pollution.

Japan announced the possibility of making controlled discharges of contaminated water in the Pacific Ocean when the storage capacity of the same is exceeded.

In the 1980s NASA detected a huge hole in the ozone layer at the height of Antarctica. The world got on with it, and the Montreal Protocol agreed to phase out the use of CFCs. What has happened since then?

Make beer with dry bread, put your belongings up for rent, buy reusable containers ... there are more and more options to produce and consume in a different way. The era of disposable products is over, and the circular economy is here to stay.

The Anthropocene has not yet been listed as an official geological era. For this, it is necessary to mark, among other things, a moment of origin. Experts place it in the middle of the 20th century, coinciding with the first nuclear tests.

This is the estimate made by the World Economic Forum

Microplastics are everywhere, but their effects on human health are still unknown.

Limiting mercury emissions to the environment has helped reduce accumulated methylmercury in fish, but warming oceans could reverse this trend.