The mouth of the River Aln moves regularly and is currently flowing further north across Alnmouth beach in Northumberland. Coastguards said quicksand could form along the estuary where, in 2022 ...

So to find out, I studied my local waterway in Sydney, the Cooks River estuary. I headed out daily to measure how many microplastics were in the water, before, during, and after a major storm ...