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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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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)
- The 15 most toxic places to live | MNN (del.icio.us)
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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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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tags: North Pacific Gyre, plastics, pollution, Pacific Ocean, streaming video
The center of the North Pacific Gyre is a relatively stationary region of the Pacific Ocean (the area it occupies is often referred to as the horse latitudes). The circular rotation around it draws waste material in and has led to the accumulation of flotsam and other debris. While historically this debris has biodegraded, the gyre is now accumulating vast...
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- The Pacific Gyre From The Eyes Of Chris Jordan (thaindian.com)
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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tags: garbage patch, Pacific Ocean, environment, science, Scripps Institute, streaming video
Scripps scientist Miriam Goldstein talks about the SEAPLEX expedition to the North Pacific Gyre and how shocked she was to find the amount of plastic on the ocean's surface when floating around in a skiff.
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- The Garbage Patch: Miriam Goldstein Tracks Plastic in a Skiff [Living the... (scienceblogs.com)
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N and estimated to be twice the size of Texas
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- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (del.icio.us)
Today in the New York Times science section you'll find a piece written by Lindsey Hoshaw about the Pacific garbage patch and an accompanying photo slide show. This piece would not have been possible if Spot.Us and a community of over 100 people hadn't come together to fund her trip.
It is a great case study for Spot.Us, and arguably the best of the 40-plus
projects we've undertaken in the past year. Despite its ambition,
and the mound of...
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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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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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By Paul Rogers progers@mercurynews.com Researchers who returned from a three-week voyage to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 1,000 miles west of California say trash threatens to contaminate seafood. View Full Story: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13248686?source=email
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From pacificariptide.com
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Read the full story in Scientific American.
It isn’t the most picturesque of locations, but a number of scientists spent their summer taking in the 25.9-million-square-kilometer oval of the Pacific Ocean known as the North Subtropical Gyre, or “Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch,” located about 1,600 kilometers off California’s coast.
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) Environmental [...]
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From lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu
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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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thebahamasweekly.com7 Reasons to Join a Beach CleanupDaily GreenThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch keeps growing. Estimated to be about the size of Canada, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a debris field in the North ...Tons of Trash Removed in Coastal CleanupMyFox Los Angelesall 147 news articles »
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