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Why beach cleans matter as new research gives scientists hope for polluted oceans | Science & Tech News
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Beach cleans rapidly and dramatically reduce plastic fragments released into the environment, according to the first scientific evidence of its kind. Experts from Norce, one of Norway‘s largest research organisations, found that within a year of volunteers removing bottles, bags and other large pieces of plastic from the shore of an island near Bergen, the…
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Winchcombe meteorite boosts theory regarding origins of Earth’s oceans | Science & Tech News
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A new study of a meteorite that landed in Winchcombe has bolstered a theory regarding the origins of water on Earth. Scientists have published their first detailed analysis of the carbonaceous chondrite meteor, which fell on the Gloucestershire town in February 2021. The new study, published in Science Advances, shows that carbonaceous chondrites like the…