Pacific Ocean Trash Patch Mystery: How Many Fish Eat Plastic?The finding, in a new study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, could have implications for the food chain. The region of floating trash in the Pacific Ocean is double the size of Texas.Clayton, Mark...
The garbage patch is two vortices filled with trash in the Pacific Ocean. The two whirlpools of human detritus are known as the Western Garbage Patch (closer to Japan) and the Eastern Garbage Patch (closer to California and Mexico).
荷兰的海洋清理基金会(The Ocean Cleanup Foundation)对位于加利福尼亚和夏威夷之间的太平洋垃圾带进行了评估。研究的结果发表在《Scientific Reports》期刊上,题为“Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic” 。评估结果显示,一些废弃的空塑料袋通过下水道进入了海洋,而不断运动的...
There's a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.It's bigger than Texas-and growing.The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets.That is both costly and slow.Instead,the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes 62-mile-long floating barriers that would use natural...
There's a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.It's bigger than Texas and growing.The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets.That is both costly and slow.Instead,the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a 62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natura...
Before Cousteau, very little was known about the nocturnal, deep sea creature called the nautilus. Cousteau was the first to capture actual footage of the nautilus swimming in the deep ocean. He also pioneered research into the communication systems used by dolphins and was among the first to ...
荷兰的海洋清理基金会(The Ocean Cleanup Foundation)对位于加利福尼亚和夏威夷之间的太平洋垃圾带进行了评估。研究的结果发表在《Scientific Reports》期刊上,题为“Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic” 。评估结果显示,一些废弃的空塑料袋通过下水道进入了海洋,而不断运动的...
If next year’s trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to start in 2020. It could reduce the trash by 42 % over 10 years.可知,传统的海洋垃圾清理方式速度慢,耗资多,而Ocean Cleanup Project会利用流动的水流来捕捉海洋垃圾。通过对比两种清理垃圾的方式,我们可以判断出,Ocean Cleanup ...
Plastic trash collected from the garbage patch in the North Pacific Ocean is mostly from fishing activities.
C All over the world, our oceans, lakes, and rivers are full of trash. There's a lot of plastic garbage swirling around in the Pacific Ocean right now and much of it is the result of our own littering and improper trash disposal. Some waterways in Europe suffer the same littering prob...