"‘It’s a way of the sea returning the trash to us’. Why plastic-filled ‘Neptune balls’ are washing up on beaches"

‘It’s a way of the sea returning the trash to us’: Why plastic-filled ‘Neptune balls’ are washing up on beaches ...

By EarthToday - September 02, 2025

As tiny pieces of plastic clog our oceans, natural meadows of seagrass are bundling up microplastics and spitting them back out onto beaches in the form of "Neptune balls".

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Inuit-led solution aims to avoid killing of Marineland’s 30 belugas

By EarthToday - October 10, 2025

Jason Etok calls for whales to be released into Arctic water to save them fro...

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Going extinct ‘right under our noses’: the quiet plight of Australia’s rarest bird of prey

By EarthToday - October 08, 2025

Restricted now to the tropical north, the mysterious red goshawk is fast disa...

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How intense wildfires can create their own weather systems

By EarthToday - October 06, 2025

Some wildfires are large enough and hot enough to create their own weather sy...

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The EU’s 5 biggest environmental problems — and why they’re not being solved

By EarthToday - October 04, 2025

Europe’s economy relies on natural ecosystems that are dying faster than ever...