A seal entangled in plastic netting on Bird Island. Credit: Claire Waluda/british antarctic survey Given Antarctica's extreme location on the bottom of the Earth, scientists long believed the continent was free from the plastic pollution tarnishing the rest of the world....
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is estimated to be twice the size of Texas – that’s triple the size of France or Thailand. However, the garbage patch isnot a solid island of trash, a common misconception — it’s more often compared to a plastic soup. Around 100 million kilograms of ...
五、阅读短文,完成任务。In the Pacific Ocean, there's a big island.It's full of plastic things,
In Indonesia, finding safe drinkable water was always a challenge, so I traveled with my water bottle, managing to almost entirely avoid the use of plastic during my trip.However, I was seriously struck by my stay on Libaran Island, where a sustainable and turtle conservation project was ...
Research Paper On Ocean Plastic Plastic is a huge problem to the Earth’s ecosystem, including to the marine wildlife of the oceans. It gets into our oceans in large quantities, and they pile up to a point they become an “island of plastic.” Some of which are estimated to be as big...
5. True or false:Only the islands of the South Pacific have been affected by plastic waste so far. False. Dr Jennifer Lavers from the University of Tasmania says "Almost every island in the world and almost every species in the ocean...
Therefore, the current study was conducted on five green turtles (Chelonia mydas) and five hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the transitional and juvenile size range (29-49 cm) that were found dead on Enggano Island, Bengkulu Province. The aim of this study...
Plastic Island, Plastic Planet?Tiny Henderson Island in the South Pacific is one of the world's most distant places, but also one of the most polluted. Scientists visited the island recently, and were amazed to find it covered in rubbish, even though no humans live there. Over 99% of the...
根据原文第四段" The program began in 2015 in Haiti, a poor island nation that doesnnt have strong programs for recycling. Plastic is often simply thrown out and ends up in rivers and the ocean.该项目于2015年在海地启动,海地是一个贫穷的岛国,没有强有力的回收项目。塑料通常被简单地扔掉,最终...
The Ocean Cleanup’s mission is to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. Decreasing the inflow of plastics into the ocean is one part of our solution to solve the problem of plastic accumulating in our oceans. But how are plastic emissions distributed over the 100,000 rivers, creeks, and ca...