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The removal of bigger pieces of plastic from coastlines aids the breakdown of tiny fragments that may have been in the water for years, research suggests.
Beach cleans rapidly and dramatically reduce plastic fragments released into the environment, according to the first scientific evidence of its kind. Experts from Norce, one of Norway's largest research organisations, found that within a year of volunteers removing bottles, bags and other large pieces of plastic from the shore of an island near Bergen, the amount of microplastic on land and in the water fell by 99.5%. Sky News joined volunteers on a mass clean of plastic washed up in Hardanger fjord in Western Norway, one of the largest in the world.
The Salmon Story follows angler and environmentalist Kenneth Bruvik as he sets out on a mission to find out why the population of Atlantic salmon is decreasing so rapidly. Norway once had a large wild Atlantic salmon population comprising nearly one third of the world's total population. But during the last 30 years, salmon numbers have decreased from one million to 500,000. Meanwhile, Norway's aquaculture industry has become its second largest export industry. Currently, aquaculture production creates approximately 400 million farmed salmon in 6,000 open net pens. Norway's wild...
Updated: April 7, 2021, 4:31 pm Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A migrating “duck” has caused concerns amongst an Ullapool environmental group. The Ullapool Sea Savers found out about a half-full Duck cleaning fluid bottle that washed up on a beach near Bergen, Norway. They have assumed it has come all the way from Scotland, but it is definitely of British origin due to lettering on the bottle. It was found by a ...