Water

How Floating Wetlands Are Helping to Clean Up Urban Waters

Yale Environment 360: Five small islands roughly the size of backyard swimming pools float next to the concrete riverbank of Bubbly Creek, a stretch of the Chicago River named for the gas that once rose to the surface after stockyards dumped animal…

3D Printed Gillbert the Robo-Fish Keeps Waterways Clean by Vacuuming Microplastics

3DPrint.com: A student from the University of Surrey designed a 3D printed robotic fish for a new contest, and her winning entry, a Robo-Fish called Gillbert, happily vacuums up…

MacArthur Fellows: Jenna Jambeck, Environmental Engineer

MacArthur Foundation: Jenna Jambeck is an environmental engineer developing new methods for understanding and addressing global plastic pollution. Since the 1950s, humans have produced over 9 billion metric tons of plastic. Jambeck is filling critical gaps in our knowledge concerning the…

The Clean Water Act at 50: Big Successes, More to Be Done

Yale Environment 360: When Steve Meserve’s great-grandfather, Bill Lewis, started the Lewis Fishery in 1888, it was one of dozens of commercial outfits scattered up and down the Delaware River that seined for American shad during the spring spawn. At the time,…