What impact do microplastics have on marine species? How can scientists identify marine microplastics? And why should we care?

Euronews Tech Talks travelled to the Flanders Marine Institute in Ostend, on the Belgian coast, to answer these and more questions with researchers Ana Catarino, Nelle Meyers and Juliette Grandjean.

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Identifying microplastics in the ocean can be challenging due to their small size and irregular shape. But there are technologies that help overcome these difficulties.

Nelle Meyers, a post-doctoral researcher at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), explains her semi-automated method to Euronews Tech Talks.

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New data shows that total world military expenditure increased by 2.6 per cent from 2017.
That’s its highest level since records began in 1988, during the cold war.

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Sea turtles are one of a number of slow-growing and long-living marine species whose survival is steadily being threatened. Since 1983, the Greek non-profit organisation ARCHELON has been working hard to help these animals. In Glyfada, we spoke with ARCHELON’s Eirini Kasimati.

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Henin-Beaumont, in the north of France close to the border with Belgium, is a National Front stronghold.

More than 60 percent of voters there backed Le Pen, rejecting the pro-EU policies of president-elect Emmanuel Macron.

“With this kind of talk and philosophy, he’ll hit the wall, because the French people don’t see that as a priority for the president of the republic, he is president of the French republic above all And not just a member state of the EU,” said Steeve Briois, the local mayor …
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