The Surprising Way Plastics Could Actually Help Fight Climate Change Joseph Rollin, The Conversation and Jenna E. Gallegos, The Conversation Science & Medicine What do your car, phone, soda bottle and shoes have in common? They’re all largely made from petroleum. This nonrenewable resource gets processed into a versatile set of chemicals called polymers – or more...
On Marine Debris as a Form of Gendered Violence UCLA Center for the Study of Women Gender Studies, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture by Maya Weeks In the wake of the election, I have been thinking extensively and without desiring to about the men who wish us dead. I have been thinking about the men who made today’s petroleum industry...