Is the Colour of Water Bodies an Indicator of their Health?
The answer is, it depends. The colour does tell us about the condition of the water body, such as if…
Road Traffic is a Major Source of Water Pollution too!
A running theme in this blog has been that pollution is transboundary. In the same vein, researchers from the University…
Civilization!
This comic is corny but admittedly, it is a little funny just because of how delusionally happy the two stranded…
The Surprising Link between Water Pollution & Mosquito-borne Diseases
An article entitled “How higher temperatures and pollution are affecting mosquitoes” by Shüné Oliver in 2019 talks about the effect…
Beach Litter & Local Management
In this post, I will cover Corbau et al.’s (2022) article entitled “What can beach litter tell about local management:…
Messages in Bottles
I used to love stories about how the protagonist would be at some beach or river and randomly stumble upon…
Plastic in the Indian Ocean
In this post, I wish to highlight some key findings and points made in Pattiaratchi et al.’s (2022) article entitled…
Adidas’ Recycled Ocean Plastic Shoes: Too Good to be True?
When I first heard about the line of Adidas shoes that were said to be made using recycled “ocean plastic”…
The Impact of Single-Use Disposable Masks
The COVID-19 pandemic (now endemic) has drastically increased the global consumption of disposable masks since 2020. One would likely have…
Why is there trash in the ocean?
In a previous post, I wrote about the innumerable flip flops polluting the ocean. But a question that kept coming…