Pacific Trash Vortex a.k.a The North Pacific Gyre
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blaisepascal seems to have missed it last time I posted it.
Ocean Pollution Animation
Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?
By Susan Casey, Photographs by Gregg Segal
Feb 20, 2007 - 12:03:05 PM
A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse.
And I'll add the article he told me about, charting currents using cargo lost at sea (Nikes and Rubbber Duckies)
Flotsam Science
By Sid Perkins, Science News Online
Week of April 28, 2007; Vol. 171, No. 17 , p. 267
You can learn a lot from floating junk
blaisepascal seems to have missed it last time I posted it.Ocean Pollution Animation
Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?
By Susan Casey, Photographs by Gregg Segal
Feb 20, 2007 - 12:03:05 PM
A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse.
And I'll add the article he told me about, charting currents using cargo lost at sea (Nikes and Rubbber Duckies)
Flotsam Science
By Sid Perkins, Science News Online
Week of April 28, 2007; Vol. 171, No. 17 , p. 267
You can learn a lot from floating junk