Column: 'We just lost a giant.' Sara Wan, fierce environmentalist and coastal defender, dies at 83
Sara Wan, longest-serving member of the California Coastal Commission, inspired many
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Sara Wan, longest-serving member of the California Coastal Commission, inspired many
In a few years, there will be more tonnage of plastic than fish in the oceans. Since plastic breaks down into micro-sized fragments, any of us who eat fish will also be filled with more plastic. Actually, we are already ingesting something like a credit card per week. Making a Difference Giant floating garbage patches the size of Texas collect in ocean currents. They are called gyres, and they now spiral slowly in five of the seven seas. Fossil fuels have made the ocean more acidic than it has ever been in almost one million years. Acidification weakens the fish shells and wrecks the coral. A...