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The giant floating garbage patch in the sea that is in danger of infecting the food chain
Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one million pounds of plastic refuse from the area since launching its ...
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Marine fungi with plastic munching power can be made hungrier, angrier with new method
Fungi have been recognized as potential allies in the fight against plastic pollution for a while now. These microorganisms ...
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OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION
All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...
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The Ocean Cleanup moves into phase three to end the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Neuston: Living Among Plastic Debris in the Open Ocean
With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with how little was known about the organisms living at the surface. Amanda was an ...
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Cruz Foam: Founded By 2 Surfers To Save Us From Plastic
It’s the year 2025 and, by now, it is abundantly clear that we have a major plastic problem–garbage patches in the ocean, trash mountains in developing nations, microplastics in organs, sperm, and ...
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QuickCheck: Is there a 'garbage island' bigger than Texas in the Pacific Ocean?
The massive collection of debris in the Pacific Ocean has a formal name: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. National Geographic explains that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch developed as spinning ...