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Water Changes Everything.

Water-Themed Art

From the Nerdly Painter

Science Inspired, Science Infused, Science Enabled ART

 

Threads of Water - the Nerdly Painter

 "Threads of water uses layers of transparent acrylic media threaded with more viscous streams of paint to create a feeling of transparency, depth and a play of light and color. Lenses, retroreflective spheres and other glass and polymer objects worked into the paint film cast and manipulate the light hitting the painting in novel ways. These “light effects” move and evolve as the viewer interacts with the painting and moves through the room, and are also sensitive to changing light. The result is a very active work that will exhibit subtle scintillating effects under some conditions."

Go to website to order prints: http://www.nerdypainter.com/portfolio/threads-of-water/

Plastic Trash in Oceans Enters Marine Food Chain

The Water Crisis by Lifewater

Every 60 seconds a child dies from preventable water-borne diseases. Many of our unsafe water sources are in the remote and rural corners of our world. All family members are affected by the water crisis – moms, dads, sons, and daughters. Lack of safe water impacts all areas of life.

Read more at the Lifewater website: https://lifewater.org/water-crisis/

The USGS Water Science School

The best thing I've found on the Internet this week is the USGS Water Science School. They offer sections for Teacher's Resources, adults and kids, a picture gallery, and the site is available in Spanish and Chinese.

Here's a list of topics you can explore on their website.

Explore the website: https://water.usgs.gov/edu/

Water Crisis - A short introduction

✔ 20 Shocking Facts About Global Water Crisis

The Coming Global Water Crisis - (Documentary, HD)

How are literature, film, and visual art used for water activism?

4Ocean - International Clean Up Movement

Help Clean Up Our Oceans With 4Ocean

Visit website: https://4ocean.com/

No Shimmer: Why Scientists Want to Ban Glitter

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Quoting article by Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor:

It's sparkly, it's festive and some scientists want to see it swept from the face of the Earth.

Glitter should be banned, researcher Trisia Farrelly, a senior lecturer in environment and planning at Massey University in New Zealand, told CBS. The reason? Glitter is made of microplastic, a piece of plastic less than 0.19 inches (5 millimeters) in length. Specifically, glitter is made up of bits of a polymer called polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which goes by the trade name Mylar. And though it comes in all sizes, glitter is typically just a millimeter or so across, Live Science previously reported.

Microplastics make up a major proportion of ocean pollution. A 2014 study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE estimated that there are about 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic weighing a total of 268,940 tons (243,978 metric tons) floating in the world's seas. Microplastics made up 92.4 percent of the total count.

 Read full article here:

No Shimmer: Why Scientists Want to Ban Glitter