However, the actual size of the island of trash is unknown, since not all of the trash sits on top of the water, Wallace said, and it's a moving target due to waves and wind. It does, however, stay within a specific area due to ocean currents. How much trash is in ...
Plastic has acutely affected albatrosses that roam a wide swath of the northern Pacific Ocean. Albatrosses frequently grab food wherever they can find it, which leads to many of the birds ingesting — and dying from — plastic and other trash. On Midway Island, which comes into contact ...
These results prove that plastic pollution at sea, while densely distributed within the patch, is scattered and does not form a solid mass, thus demystifying the trash island concept. Modelled mass concentration By size classes Vertical distribution The Ocean Cleanup measured the vertical distribu...
Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world's largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. The 2,000-foot long floating boom was being towed f...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is difficult to spot with the naked eye — much of the "patch" is a collection of tiny fragments of plastic gathered by ocean currents called gyres. Other parts of the trash raft have items that are easier to see, like buoys, nets and even fishing vessels...
et al. Perfluoroalkyl sulfonates and carboxylic acids in liver, muscle and adipose tissues of black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) from Midway Island, North Pacific Ocean.Chemosphere138, 60–66 (2015). Google Scholar Young, L. C., Vanderlip, C., Duffy, D. C., Afanasyev, V. & ...
The garbage patch is an enormous gyre of debris roughly twice the size of Texas state, whirled into shape by the water currents of the Northern Pacific. It’s also called the Pacific trash vortex. The world has five such masses. This specific one—the largest of them all—was first docume...
I give a lot of public talks aboutmy researchon plastic trash in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, and after every talk, someone comes up to me and says “Wow! I really thought there was an island!” (Well, in one memorable instance, a woman came up to me and said, “YOU MEAN ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as 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. Although many scientists suggest that the patch extends over a very wide area, with ...
Chu, S.et al. Perfluoroalkyl sulfonates and carboxylic acids in liver, muscle and adipose tissues of black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) from Midway Island, North Pacific Ocean.Chemosphere138, 60–66 (2015). Google Scholar PLoS One4, e7623,(2009). ...