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California fires: a year-round issue | Photo: Creative Commons

Fires have become a serious problem in California. Here's why the Golden State has been plagued by ferocious blazes nearly all year round.

The Interceptor: the 100-percent solar-powered solution that prevents river plastic from entering the oceans | Photo: The Ocean Cleanup

The Interceptor prevents river plastic from entering the oceans

The Ocean Cleanup unveiled The Interceptor, a scalable technology that prevents river plastic from entering the oceans.

Time zones: defined by their offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) | Photo: Shutterstock

The world time zone map

What time is it? Here's how a common daily question can have multiple answers. Welcome to the complex world of time zones.

The Ocean Cleanup: System 001/B is successfully capturing and collecting plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean | Photo: The Ocean Cleanup

The Ocean Cleanup is successfully catching plastic

Boyan Slat announced that System 001/B is successfully capturing and collecting plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean.

Sea water: H2O with a few extras | Photo: Shutterstock

What is the chemical composition of sea water?

Sea water - or salt water - is basically water from the oceans and seas. It covers roughly 70 percent of our planet.

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant: storage for radioactive water will reach its limit by 2022 | Photo: Tepco

Japan could drain radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific

In the past eight years, Tokyo Electric Power, also known as Tepco, collected over one million tonnes of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.