Tag: plastic

October 23, 2017

Japanese tsunami flooded US with invasives

In June 2012, 15 months after a magnitude-9 earthquake struck northeastern Japan and sent a colossal tsunami hurtling through the oceans, a 66-foot slab of concrete from Misawa, Japan washed...

Turtle
March 23, 2015

Plastic Can Disrupt Development of Turtle Embryos

Researchers at Illinois State University are studying the impacts of BPA, a common chemical found in plastic, on red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans). Rachel Bowden, biology professor at the...