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Ocean plastics from Haiti’s beaches turned into laptop packaging

Ocean plastics from Haiti’s beaches turned into laptop packaging

12 June 2017

Laptop packaging is an unlikely new destination for plastic otherwise destined for oceans – but will it make a difference to the clean-up efforts?

Artificial coralline algae in reef

Rubber algae help create first artificial reef in Mediterranean

12 June 2017

Ocean acidification could dissolve natural algal reefs in the Mediterranean Sea – but artificial replacements may keep these ecosystems going

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