Thousands of volunteers comb North Sea beaches at Beach Cleanup Tour: “282 pieces of rubbish within one hundred metres”
The Beach Cleanup Tour’s eighth edition saw volunteers go along the Dutch North Sea coast cleaning up litter Translated by ...
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Wadden Sea conservation group starts petition against unsafe giant container ships using risky routes north of the Islands
The Waddenvereniging is angry that even following the MSC Zoe disaster nothing has been done to prevent the same incident ...
Are we being invaded? No, Eelde just wants military jets at airport
The airport is looking for new revenue streams Groningen Airport Eelde is busy looking at new possibilities and therefore also ...
Thousands of stunted marine animals to tell the story of the MSC Zoe
New research shows the devastating effect of plastic microbeads on sea life Translated by Thomas Ansell In order to give ...
CNN: Teenager from Ireland chooses Groningen to work on revolutionary idea
A teenager from Ireland has chosen the University of Groningen to work on a promising idea to remove plastic from ...
New University of Groningen policy calls on staff to limit business air travel
Changes to the University of Groningen's travel policy mean that employees are no longer allowed to fly for business if ...
Two million kilos from MSC Zoe salvaged from North Sea
So far, the ongoing clean-up effort following the MSC Zoe container spill in January has salvaged around 2 million kilos ...
24 million plastic pellets from MSC Zoe on northern Dutch coastline
Research by the University of Groningen has determined that roughly 24 million plastic pellets have washed ashore along the northern ...
Help still needed for plastic pollution map of Wadden Islands
Researchers from the University of Groningen seeking to map out the plastic pollution from the MSC Zoe container spill say ...
Black flecks on snow in Farmsum after ESD blazer
The snow in the vicinity of the ESD facility in Farmsum was littered with black flecks on Thursday afternoon after ...