Plastic Busters

Prof. M. Cristina Fossi represented Italy on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Italian Embassy in Vienna, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Fossi took part in the event “Women in Science: Breaking Frontiers”.🐋🐋

PLASTIC BUSTERS research group at the University of Siena is involved in HARMONY, a newly funded international project coordinated by Università Politecnica Marche instagram.com/p/DTz2w2LDp6n/…

On 1–2 December, the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station in Naples hosted the Final Meeting of NBFC – Spoke 2. During the two-day event, Spoke 2 partners (UNISI) presented key outcomes and discussed future directions for strengthening marine biodiversity conservation in the Med!

Plastic Busters UNISI’s research activities for MIRAMAR are beginning in the wetlands of the San Rossore National Park (Tuscany)! 🌈Investigating multiple stressors 🎯🧩in these very important ecosystems contributes to the conservation of their biodiversity🦆🦅🐟🌿!

🐋Important participation of Plastic Busters for the presentation of the MIRAMAR project at the Mission Natural Heritage event in Barcelona!

📍 30 of October we presented MIRAMAR and MedPROACTpojects at the Union for the Mediterranean headquarters in Barcelona! MIRAMAR is working to understand and reduce the pressures affecting our sea — from plastics to new contaminants, noise pollution, and climate impacts!

MIRAMAR Join us to hear all about the cooperation at the heart of the Mediterranean, represented by synergies with Union for the Mediterranean labelled iniative Plastic Busters initiative 📆 30th October 👉 Register here to follow the event online: abalingua.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

🌍 On 16 October 2025, @unisiena hosted the Festival @motumundi conference on climate change, emerging pollutants, and biodiversity, as part of the 2025 edition of the Festival dedicated to sustainability.A stimulating day of dialogue, science, and for a sustainablefuture 💚

MIRAMAR project activities performed by Plastic Busters !🐋

What are the main multiple stressors on Seagrass Meadows in important Mediterranean @MPAs? How can we monitor them using innovative methodologies? The @unisiena monitoring activities of the @InterregEuroMED MIRAMAR project are starting in the Meloria MPA in Tuscany🦈🐟🦀🐬

Today 🐋🎯 Plastic Busters @unisiena team and the CIMA Foundation in RAI program “Sapiens” ! Sentinel of Biodiversity Spoke 2 of the @nbfc_italy !

🐋🎯 🌊 The Plastic Busters @unisiena team and the CIMA Foundation carried out filming for the RAI program “Sapiens” about their joint research activities on cetaceans within the framework of Spoke 2 of the @nbfc_italy ! 📺 Stay tuned!!!

🎯The Plastic Busters team @UNISI, in collaboration with the @CIMA Foundation, is carrying out the final cetacean monitoring season in the Pelagos Sanctuary as part of the activities of @NBFC Spoke2!  Searching for the effects of human impacts on these charismatic species!🐋🐋

🌊 The MIRAMAR project is also ready to be launched through television! 🎥In one of the pilot areas Secche della Meloria MPA, Maria Cristina Fossi and the Plastic Busters Team has been interviewed by the Linea Blu (Rai Uno)! ⚠️📺Stay tuned!

News in la Repubblica!🐋 repubblica.it/green-and-blue…

Emerging pollutants in Fin whale🐋! New data by Plastic Busters 🐋🐋! ansa.it/ansa2030/notiz…

Ieri, 24/6, si è tenuto il Kick-off meeting del progetto Interreg Euro-Med #MIRAMAR, coordinato dall'#Università di #Siena (Prof.ssa Maria Cristina Fossi). 👉 instagram.com/p/DLSlfnfIr9z/…

Today LP @unisiena announces the launch of the Interreg Euro Med MIRAMAR project through the Kick-Off meeting! 🐋 MIRAMAR is devoted to developing an innovative methodology to assess multiple stressors in three iconic ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea 🐋.

In the 3th UNITED NATION OCEAN CONFERENCE #UNOC3 🐋 Prof. Fossi presented the new EU project MIRAMAR in the Natural Herritage mission. MIRAMAR is devoted to developing an innovative methodology to assess multiple stressors in three iconic ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea 🐋

The Plastic Busters team is honored to present at the “Mediterranean Day” event organized by the @UfMSecretariat during the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference #UNOC3 in Nice the two new EU projects: MIRAMAR (@Interreg Euro-Med) and MedProAct (@interreg Next-Med)🐋🐋