NEWS + RESEARCH

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A 2025 Update On the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

(June 28, 2025) The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a swirling plastic wasteland, bigger than France and packed with up to 3.6 trillion pieces of trash. It’s choking sea life, darkening the ocean, and no country wants to clean it up. Most of it comes from everyday plastic waste that never goes away.

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Journey to Destroy PFAS

(June 28, 2025) PFAS are used in many everyday items, but their pollution can end lives. However, promising advancements are being made every year by scientists working tirelessly to solve forever chemicals’ forever problems.

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Outside of the Amazon: The World's Largest Rainforests

(June 24, 2025) There are hundreds of thousands of acres of rainforest land across the world and on almost every continent. Deforestation, natural resource extraction, wildlife harm, and pollution threaten the future of these ecosystems, and we must do everything we can to protect them.

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World Day to Combat Desertification & Drought: Somalia in Crisis

(June 17, 2025) Today, six million Somalians are in need of urgent humanitarian aid, with half of the population experiencing water insecurity. 80 percent of Somalia is experiencing severe drought conditions, with 2.6 million Somalians facing water shortages.

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What is ESG—and What Can You Do About It?

(June 13, 2025) In today’s world, it’s not enough for companies to focus solely on profits—people want to know how businesses impact the planet, society, and their own employees.

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Warmer Oceans are Not the Positive Spring Breakers May Think

(June 8, 2025) Our ocean covers around 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, but harbors about ninety percent of global warming. The amount of heat energy the ocean has absorbed over the last six decades is more than eight times the amount of energy humans used over that time period for cooking, electricity, industry, heating, etc.

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