environmental health

For twenty summers, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has published Testing the Waters… Read the rest (TTW), a national report on beach water quality. The report first drew attention to the lack of information available to the public on beach water quality—and the presence all too often of pathogens in bathing waters.

Plastics are destroying our oceans, and yet it has taken a long time to get communities and governments to commit to working towards gleaning us off of our plastic dependency. To expose the issue on large scale, a team of Algalita Marine Research Foundation staff set sail last year from… Read the rest