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1 hour ago · The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group is trying to clean up the more than 100,000 tons of ...
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5 days ago · Researchers seem to find plastic fragments everywhere they look: from the bottom of the deepest ocean trenches and the shores of remote islands, to the Pyrenees mountains and frozen Arctic ice...
May 28, 2024 · Oceanic plastic pollution is remarkable for the sheer ubiquity of its presence, from ocean trenches, within deep sea sediment, on the ocean floor and ocean ridges to the ocean surface and coastal margins of oceans. Even remote island atolls can have beaches loaded with plastic from a faraway source.
May 24, 2024 · Microplastics have been found to be circulating in all of the Earth's oceans and some of the greatest concentrations of them are thousands of miles from land. These tiny particles of plastics can...
May 28, 2024 · Plastics are persistent large-scale pollutants, and plastic debris (such as bottles, straws, containers, and plastic wrap) and particulates have been found in many environmental niches, from Mount Everest to the bottom of the sea.
May 24, 2024 · Almost 75 percent of it is plastic, according to a study by the Center of Remote Sensing and Ocean Sciences at Bali's Udayana University.
1 day ago · The fungus, named Parengyodontium album, was found living with other marine organisms on samples of plastic trash drawn from the North Pacific Garbage Patch in December 2019 during the Ocean ...
