The plastic polluters won 2019 – and we’re running out of time to stop them

The beach at Muncar on the island of Java was revolting. The 400-yard wide, mile-long stretch of sand was feet deep in foul-smelling sauce sachets, shopping bags, nappies, bottles and bags, plastic clothes and detergent bottles. Bulldozers had cleared away and buried some of the huge mat of plastic and>>>

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The biggest breakthroughs in space in 2019, from the farthest object ever visited to the first photo of a black hole

This year was full of astronomical breakthroughs in space. Photos captured phenomena nobody had ever seen before. Ambitious spacecraft revealed new secrets about the sun and the edges of our solar system. Astronomers spotted the brightest light in the universe, found new planets circling distant stars, and detected a collision>>>

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