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Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating island of garbage in the Pacific Ocean, found between California and Hawaii. The garbage island is formed from floating debris, plastic bottles, etc. Find more news and articles about the Great... [more]
Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating island of garbage in the Pacific Ocean, found between California and Hawaii. The garbage island is formed from floating debris, plastic bottles, etc. Find more news and articles about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch here.
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Estimated to be twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has received the most attention from us and other media outlets. However, it isn't the only trash gyre marring our oceans. In fact, there are four others, all of which are in need of the same attention from researchers that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has garnered. Luckily, the 5 Gyres project is bringing much needed focus to the other swirls of...
- Oprah Shines Light On Great Pacific Garbage Patch (del.icio.us)
tags: Project Kaisei, Oceanography, North Pacific Gyre, North Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic, pollution, environment, streaming video
Underwater videographer, underwater photographer, and author, Annie Crawley joined Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Project Kaisei aboard the New Horizon on a 3 week long expedition to the North Pacific Gyre. They collected data to help find a solution to the "Plastic Vortex" forming in our Ocean.
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- Project Kaisei 2009: Intro From the Kaisei [Living the Scientific Life... (scienceblogs.com)
- Tackling the Pacific garbage patch (asiapacificnews.net)
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Project Kaisei (associatedcontent.com)
Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patch, an area of widely dispersed trash that doubles in size every decade and is now believed to be roughly twice the size of Texas.
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Imagine the largest landfill that you have ever seen. Now imagine it floating in the Pacific Ocean. What you are imagining is probably much like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but on a much smaller scale.Contributor: Shelly BarclayPublished: Dec 18, 2009
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The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, Nov. 23, on Great Pacific Garbage Patch: ... Percolating in the Pacific Ocean, abut half way between California and Hawaii, is an aquatic landfill commonly called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ... an accumulation of debris that is estimated to be as large as twice the size of Texas.
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From paragoulddailypress.com
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Photographer and activist Chris Jordan speaks with Eve Bowen about his recent photographs, taken at one of the world's most remote marine wildlife sanctuaries, of albatross chicks killed by plastic waste that their parents have mistaken for food. To read more and see Jordan's images of the chicks, please visit http://blogs.nybooks.com
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- Midway: Message from the Gyre (feedburner.com)
We are letting far too much plastic end up in the oceans. ABOARD THE ALGUITA, 1,000 miles northeast of Hawaii In this remote patch of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from any national boundary, the detritus of human life is collecting in a swirling current so large that it defies precise measurement. In 1804, a little over 200 years ago, the planet had a human population of 1 billion people. Back then the oceans seemed immense and...
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From futurepundit.com
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by CLAIRE GRINTON, Contributing Writer
On one of the most remote islands in the world, Kure Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, albatross chicks are suffering from huge levels of plastic consumption. Joined by seals, turtles, and hundreds of thousands of sea birds, these albatrosses scavenge the area for flying fish eggs and other tasty morsels each day, but often end up eating as much as ten times as much plastic as chicks living on Oahu, some 1,300...
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By Ranjan Bhaduri
Nov. 4, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Chris Jordan, the artist from Seattle, has come out with mind wrenching pictures from the Pacific Gyre or the Great Pacific garbage patch. The gyre, is amidst spiraling currents and measures twice of what US does (in size). The garbage patch, is not filled up with garbage, but it [...]
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- Learning More About the Pacific Gyre (nbcsandiego.com)
From the news that all 600,000 African elephants will be extinct by 2025 at current rates of poaching, according to figures from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, to Congress' approval of a bill that will allow three wheelers to get funding from the Department of Energy, a lot happened this week in green. Our Best of Green winner Chris Jordan visited the Midway Atoll, right in the heart of the Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Daily GreenAn Intimate Look at the Monstrous Great Pacific Garbage PatchDaily GreenHave you heard the latest news out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? The word on the pollution (it's growing) and impact on wildlife (it's poisoning them) ...Ocean garbage patch a 'sad sight'Auckland stuff.co.nzAnother Take on Garbage GyresVoice of San DiegoSpot.us article featured in New York Timeseditorsweblog.org (blog)all 15 news articles »
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area that contains 3.5 million tons of trash and extends from California to China. Can we take down this monster?Contributor: Andrea RowePublished: Nov 18, 2009
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From associatedcontent.com
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Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.
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Birds, boats threatened by the Pacific's Great Garbage PatchUSA Today"It's a swirling plastic cesspool," says Moore of an area called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which captivated the marine researcher after he became ...Billionaire's Eco Message In A Boat BottleSky NewsHope floats on eco-celebrity's recycled plastic boat, PlastikiUSA Todayall 12 news articles »
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According to a new report commissioned by the Marine Resource Conservation working group of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), ocean debris in the region has been increasing in spite of mitigating factors to stem the pollution. In fact, there even is a sprawling mass of garbage-littered water known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. ‘The [...]
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