Click Here to Read: Banning Plastic Bags Works to Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds: Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them by By Christina Kelso in the New York Times on June 19, 2025.

Marine debris litters a beach on Laysan Island in the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge, where it washed ashore. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read: Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles on the European Space Agency website on June 6, 2025.

Solar Orbiter orbiting the Sun.  Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Click Here to Read: Scientists mapped what happens if a crucial system of ocean currents collapses. The weather impact would be extreme By Laura Paddison on the CNN website on June 11, 2025.
Pack ice off northern Baffin Island Image: Paul Gierszewski (Gierszep)  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read: Planet Nine? Not quite, but some astronomers think they’ve spotted a new dwarf planet: In searching for the elusive Planet Nine, researchers instead turned up a different resident in our cosmic backyard by JBy Denise Chow on the NBC News website on June 4, 2025.

Dwarf planets 5. Image: JorisvS (talk).  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.