Could your sunscreen be contributing to beach erosion?
Craig Downs’s 2015 study linked chemical sunscreens to coral reef harm; now he’s investigating other coastal impacts
09 August 2023 - 20:39
“It’s raining,” Conrad Downs, 9, told his dad, not exactly happy to have been dropped off by a ferry on an empty island under a grey July sky with a constant downpour...
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