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Plastic. Who doesn't think it's helpful? It's light in weight, some of it is strong and durable, and the most helpful one: it is disposable . Yes, you use it once and throw it all away. People won't even bother to wonder where it might end up or they won't bother to ask for one after another, because yes, it's practically free to get. The history of this material went back way across the centuries. British Plastic Federation (2017), reveals in the timeline of plastic invention  that the beginning of plastic started long time ago. Throughout the years, it has become an important part of many industries, adapting and evolving to survive its own existence up until now. Its versatility amazes us, how this small material called polymer  is transformed into various forms to fulfil the needs of many. Unfortunately, there are always two sides in a coin. Concerns over plastic waste has been growing from year to year. A world without plastic or synthetic organic polyme...

In 2017, a group of researchers from The University of Western Australia (News UWA, 2017), completed a four month research of shark - coral reef ecosystem within the marine ecosystem. The result was surprising, as it turns out shark plays an important role in sustaining and regulating the ocean health. A group consists of researchers from school of Biological Science UWA, and the UWA Ocean Institute performed a video-based observation using a bunch of baited video camera to monitor the behaviour of this pack of " wolf of the ocean ". The research was performed by collecting the biological data from over 600 fish from more than 60 species. According to the programme leader, Professor Jessica Meeuwig, the increasing pressure of climate change, bleaching and overfishing to coral reef ecosystem and marine life has urged the importance of assessing the role of shark to reef resilience. Massive numbers of tools and equipment including 63 kilometres of rope, 12 tonnes worth of ...

Environmental issue is spiking up significantly the past couple of years. Environmental issue, indeed, is not only happening in big cities, but urban life arguably triggered one of the most significant damages to the environment for over the past decades. Environmental issues in big cities are in fact, complex and consist more than just one problem. Among those problems are bad air condition, water pollution, urban green space, fossil-fuel energy consumption, climate change etc. These all problem are linked to each other like a chain, and they are all in urgent needs of salvation. None of them can be solved without attempting to fix other ones. Over the years, environmental problem has grown into such complex and problematic issues, and often it feels like these are more likely to be an enigma. Despite the continuous attempt that we do to fix things up, those problems seemed to be just the tip of an iceberg. The whole picture of the problem is actually bigger that we might realise and...