http://www.tecca.com/news/2012/05/22/bmt-shoal-robotic-fish
Fake fish could tell us when we're polluting faster than we'd ever detect ourselves. And look SUPER creepy while doing so.
Culture Buzz A river so polluted in China that it's turned a Kool Aid shade of red. The End Times are nigh, and they are apparently Chinese.
Science Buzz Mother Nature is turning trash into treasure. For almost twenty years, residents of Fort Bragg, CA used the ocean as a receptacle for household garbage. The practice was shut down in the sixties and ever since then the surf has been beating the glass shards into beautiful submission.
Culture Buzz Here's a fun thought: every day you might be doing something that is slowly killing you. Here's a list of those kind of things.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/business/energy-environ...
As China runs out of landfill space, it is racing to build incinerators, a growing source of toxic emissions.
Beach trash repackaged as food, like this cellophane-wrapped bundle of used condoms, shows fish shoppers the happy homes their sockeyes and snappers came from. A taste of the ocean.