Sentences with phrase «environment following decades»

Microplastics are small plastic fragments that have accumulated in the marine environment following decades of pollution.

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In the following decades, similar extremophilic microorganisms have also discovered around the globe in some of the harshest terrestrial environments imaginable, from the boiling geysers of the Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. to the highly alkaline, acidic, and toxic waters of the Rio Tinto river in southwestern Spain to the Mono Lake in California, just to name a few.

What has emerged in Louisiana during the decade following Hurricane Katrina is an education environment dominated by choice.