Barker feels in her gut the reality that no area in the world is free from plastic anymore, “from the poles to the Equator, from the sea surface to the ocean floor.” She wants the rest of us ...

Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

For thousands of years, the Aegean Sea has been a crossroads of civilizations, from Bronze Age kingdoms to the cultural and military might of ancient Greece and Rome. But alongside their art, ...