floating

It seemed like a nice enough day for a boat trip along the Chicago River. A bright pink, rented kayak in tow, local Cindy Juhasz took to the water with her husband and friend last year. It’s something they did often, but this time was different. “We were on the river...

Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Plastic in the ocean is a big problem that first came to widespread public attention in the late 1980s when mariners began sharing reports of what turned out to be a 1.6 million square kilometer garbage patch (that’s about three times the size...