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I find it surprising that so many people picture the Mariana trench as pristine isolated wilderness, while in reality people live there. “Generations of Indigenous activists living on the nearby Mariana Islands have worked for decades to protect the ocean resources in and around the Mariana Trench...
Plastics are so ubiquitous in our lives that there are countless other sources of plastic pollution. In the eastern United States, the Hudson River carries 300 million clothing fibers into the Atlantic Ocean every day, according to a 2017 study. About half of the fibers are plastic, many enter...
In some parts of the world they are revered and protected; in other places they are captured and eaten for dinner. One thing is certain: They’re everywhere.
Though the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the most widely publicized of the so-called trash islands, theAtlantic Oceanhas one as well in the Sargasso Sea. The Sargasso Sea is located in the North Atlantic Ocean between 70 and 40 degrees westlongitudeand 25 and 35 degrees northlatitude. It ...
brow as she sifts through the pile. She is dark-skinned, clearly of African descent, speaks French, and lives on an island in the Caribbean, thousands of miles away from both France and Africa. How do we end up with an African woman speaking French living on a pile of trash in Haiti...
What Happens to Trash? What Is a Landfill? Getting Approval to Build a Landfill Parts of a Landfill How Landfills Operate How Much Trash Does the U.S. Generate? Of the 292.4 million tons (265.3 million metric tons) per year of trash that the U.S. generated in 2018, the most re...
Still, the incidences of littering grew swiftly in those short few decades. Increases in littering and illegal dumping contribute to air pollution, land pollution and ocean pollution. For example, approximately 8 million tons of plastic waste finds its way into our oceans every year. It can be...
World’s major rivers are becoming conveyor belts. They pick up more and more trash as they go downstream and take plastic to seas and oceans. Once this plastic is caught in ocean streams, it’s transported around the world. Here’s an example: Henderson Island is an uninhibited atoll betw...
What exactly is this enormous pile of garbage plaguing our biggest ocean? Centered at the heart of the North Pacific, theGreat Pacific Garbage Patch—otherwise known as the Pacific Trash vortex—is home to mounds of swirling microplastics and other large pieces of trash. In fact, it’s the ...