Lavers and study co-author Alexander Bond discovered se a turtles that come to the island to lay eggs caught inside fishing lines. The waste is also harmful to seabirds and fish that mistake the colourful plastic pieces for food.Environmentalists like Boyan Slat, who founded The Ocean Cleanup...
either. _67The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches across the narrow extension of the North Pacific Ocean, forming a floating junk yard on the high seas. It's the poster child for a worldwide problem: plastic that begins in human hands yet ends up in the ocean, often inside animals'...
A giant slab of ice bigger than the Spanish island of Majorca has sheared off from the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest iceberg afloat in the world, the European Space Agency has announced. The newly calved berg, designated A-76 by scient...
An ocean is a large body of salt water, the largest type of body of water on Earth. Although all oceans are contiguous, scientists have recognized five distinct oceans on Earth: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic (or Southern) Oceans....
Essentially, the CS represents a remnant of the ancient Tethis Ocean or, more precisely, its Paratethis Bay31. The CS is a vast land-locked water reservoir that exhibits close meridional stretching in an almost N–S direction crossing various major latitudinal structural elements. These structural...
根据第段中"As for all sea bird species,there are other threats,such as drift nets,oil spills and rubbish such as plastic in the ocean.(至于所有的海鸟物种,还有其他的威胁,比如漂网、石油泄漏以及海洋中的塑料垃圾)"可知,漂网是造成信天翁死亡的原因之一,但文中并未提及"被漂网捕获的信天翁死于溺水"...
Agusan Marsh, the Philippines' largest wetland, is in the middle of the Agusan River and serves as a catchment basin for excess flood water from upstre
(The twine ball's mass helped anchor the museum securely when a tornado spun through Branson in 2012. Or that's one theory, anyway.)The ball fills a corner near the museum exit, behind some crowd control bars. It's made entirely of multicolored plastic bailing twine, and accompanied by...
The caldera collapse of Deception Island Volcano, Antarctica, was comparable in scale to some of the largest eruptions on Earth over the last several millennia. Despite its magnitude and potential for far-reaching environmental effects, the age of this event has never been established, with estimate...
(a) Locations of sites in: the Caribbean–St Eustatius (SE); the Atlantic--Ascension Island (AI) and Cape Verde (CV); and the Indian Ocean–Chagos Archipelago (CA). This figure has been created in R57 using the Rworldmap package59. (b) Each point for Chagos Archipelago (in green) ...