The Mariana Trench is the Pacific ocean’s deepest point, but the average depth of the Pacific ocean is about 14,000 feet. ThePuerto Ricotrench is the deepest point in the Atlantic ocean (28,232 feet deep), and
Every day New York City picks up 12,000 tons of refuse and recycling. How does all this trash go from the garbage can to its final destination? Former New York City Sanitation Commissioner Ed Grayson is here to explain.
The evolution of the plastic bottle from amazing to scourge of land and sea has played out inside of a generation.
Today, we still dump more than 100 million tons (90.719 million metric tons) of trash into landfills annually [source: Hall]. Even though modern sanitary landfills are safer and less of a nuisance than the open dumps of the past, no one likes having a landfill around. In heavily populated...
that is developing solar sail technology, the Planetary Society (a private, non-profit group based in Pasadena, California), supports the Cosmos 1, which boasts solar sails that are made of aluminum-reinforced Mylar and are approximately one fourth the thickness of a one-ply plastic trash bag....
B A. We can even find plastic trash on the Himalayas. B. Plastic was designed to stay for ever and it will never break down. C. After 2050, there will be more plastics than fish by weight in the ocean. D. Cleaning plastics in the ocean is much more difficult than cleaning them on...
Target is on 20. [Narrator] The surveillance ecosystem that could only be imagined back in the 1998 film Enemy of the State pretty much exists today, complete with smart cameras and high altitude aerial imaging. In the last two decades, ...
He felt so sad to see such a gorgeous place littered with so much trash. Thus, he and his friends decided to grab a few trash bags and clean it all up. A man passing by decided to video their good deed and put it on the internet. It was unclear where the rest of the group was...
Professor Richard Lampitt, of the National Oceanography Centre, in the UK, says technological advances can help, like better filters in washing machines to catch microfibers – as can industry moves to develop less damaging plastics. Read: How our trash is destroying paradise ...
“If we don’t do anything, it will be too late,” says biologist and study co-author Nick Dulvy.“It’s much worse than other animal populations we’ve been looking at,” adding the downward trend for sharks is even steeper than those for elephants and rhinos, which are “iconic in ...