For comparison: a few hundred kilometers from the patch you’d struggle to find values of 0.1 kg per square kilometer. A summary of the science of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be found here and more details on the trash island misconception here....
On the journey, he discovered a huge "island" in the Pacific Ocean. The "island" was mostly made of plastic trash and it was twice the size of Texas(德克萨斯). It became known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch(垃圾堆). Moore has been watching the "island" ever since he found it. ...
Midway Island is a tiny, 2.4-square-mile speck of land located roughly halfway between North America and Asia in the middle of the Pacific. In 2011 a team of filmmakers, researchers, writers and others led by legendary artist Chris Jordan traveled to Midway to document the effects of global...
Marine litter pollution on the Northern Island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 150, 110671 (2020). Article Google Scholar Mallory, M. L. et al. Anthropogenic litter in marine waters and coastlines of Arctic Canada and West Greenland. Sci. Total Environ. 783, 146971 ...
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A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic waste—but the young innovator behind the project said Monday that a fix was in the works.
A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic waste—but the young innovator behind the project said Monday that a fix was in the works.
vascular plants and large breeding seabird colonies. Every day on Henderson Island — one of the most remote places on earth — trash from every continent except antarctica washes up its shores. Fishing nets and floats, water bottles, and plastics break into small particles against the rocks and...
I'm in that age group that remembers life with little or no plastic. Even the large soda bottles were made of glass and milk came in a waxed cardboard carton. For some time now, I've been concerned about the huge island of garbage and plastic that has invaded our oceans. Our marine...
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