First dive survey of Lake Tahoe’s lakebed finds high amounts of plastic and other litter

First dive survey of Lake Tahoe’s lakebed finds high amounts of plastic and other litter

Plastic litter is a growing problem around the world, and new research shows that the bottom of Lake Tahoe is no exception. In one of the first studies to utilize scuba divers to collect litter from a lakebed, 673 plastic items were counted from just a small fraction of the lake. In the study, published … Read more