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NRCS making $260K available for Virginia reef restoration

Microplastics: An emerging threat to the Chesapeake Bay

Microplastics: An emerging threat to the Chesapeake Bay Microplastics are a result of our decades-long reliance on plastics and their threat to the Bay may not be fully known for years. Author: David Alan Updated: 11:26 PM EDT April 8, 2021 NORFOLK, Va. The Chesapeake Bay is a treasure. Its miles and miles of shoreline remind us we are Tidewater. The Bay welcomes us home. It s an economic driver for our region and it s also a vulnerable and sophisticated ecosystem being threatened by plastic.   Along a small stretch of shoreline in Portsmouth, we found a smorgasbord of trash.  You can see everything from water bottles to plastic bags, said Chris Moore with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. We found a sneaker, dozens of construction hard hats, even a traffic drum. Every bit of trash we saw as we walked the shoreline was the ugly side of our reliance on plastics. 

The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats

The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats Ashifa Kassam in Madrid Growing up in southern Spain, Ángel León paid little attention to the meadows of seagrass that fringed the turquoise waters near his home, their slender blades grazing him as he swam in the Bay of Cádiz. It was only decades later – as he was fast becoming known as one of the country’s most innovative chefs – that he noticed something he had missed in previous encounters with Zostera marina: a clutch of tiny green grains clinging to the base of the eelgrass.

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