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Christopher Joyce

Recent Contributions

  • U.S. recycling industry struggles to figure out a future without China
  • Plastics or people? At least 1 of them has to change to clean up our mess
  • Plastic has a big carbon footprint -- but that isn't the whole story
  • Replacing plastic: Can bacteria help us break the habit?
  • Microplastics have invaded the deep ocean -- and the food chain
  • The 'Great Dying' nearly erased life on Earth. Scientists see similarities to today
  • Remote island chain has few people -- but hundreds of millions of pieces of plastic
  • Denisovans, a little-known kind of ancient humans, are traced to Tibet
  • Microplastic found even in the air in France's Pyrenees mountains
  • Dozens of nonnative marine species have invaded the Galapagos Islands