As plastics clog the Great Lakes, industry presses to make more and downplays dangers, Tribune analysis finds

More than 8 billion tons of plastic waste clog the planet. If stacked within Chicago’s Millennium Park, plastic dumped into the environment since the middle of the last century would rise beyond the ...

Great waste in the Great Lakes: How plastic pollution is clogging our waters

More than 40 million depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Yet plastic pollution in the lake water isn’t regulated, and manufacturers are moving to dramatically increase the amount of plastics ...
Reuters

Exclusive: US military personnel are being targeted using location data, Pentagon letter shows

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of ...
IEEE

PL-VAP: A Tightly Coupled Self-Localization Framework for Underwater Robots Using Point-Line Features and Visual-Acoustic-Pressure Sensor Fusion

Abstract: Due to the sparse underwater textures, pure visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is limited, restricting the localization ability of underwater robots. To improve the ...