Developing technology inspired by nature’s iridescent colour, Radiant Matter is producing alternatives to plastic sparkle that keeps their allure but…
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How to protect the ocean – conservation, climate change and calling on world leaders
8 June is World Ocean Day, which supports collaborative conservation and the sharing of knowledge and actionable resources about the ocean. Ceri Webster, research postgraduate student at Imperial College London and the Zoological Society London studying how to measure biodiversity in the ocean, discusses ocean biodiversity decline, climate change and how to best protect the ocean.
Don’t blame plastic, blame poor waste management
Grantham Affiliate Chris Cheeseman, Professor of Materials Resources Engineering at Imperial College London, considers what’s behind the plastic pollution crisis,…
When it rains it pours: How can cities save the ocean from plastic pollution during heavy rainfall?
Charles Axelsson, a PhD researcher at Italy’s Ca ‘Foscari University, studied his Master’s at Imperial College London, where he worked…
Big oceans, big IT: Modelling plastic pollution in the ocean
Department of Physics undergraduate Thomas Stokes reflects on his recent research placement at the Grantham Institute. Approaching a new project…
Where can we best tackle the ocean plastics problem?
Following recent research suggesting that 90% of seabirds have eaten plastic, Department of Physics undergraduate Peter Sherman investigates how we could clean…
The case of our missing trash
by Dr Erik van Sebille, Grantham Lecturer in Oceanography and Climate Change Our oceans are filthy with plastic. Most attention so far…