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Pacific Garbage Patch a 'Ticking Time Bomb'
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch that floats between California and Hawaii is even bigger than scientists believed—about twice the size of Texas, specifically. "We were surrounded by an endless layer of...
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Al Gore Is the First Citizen of the 'Trash Isles'
Campaigners want a vast area of floating garbage in the ocean to be the world's newest country—and they've already got more would-be citizens than some real countries. Al Gore is on board as the first...
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Study Shows Depressing Scope of Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Already the largest floating trash island in the world, researchers have found the mass of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is "increasing exponentially," the Washington Post reports. “I’ve been doing...
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Swimmer Begins Record Japan-California Attempt
Ben Lecomte has set off from Japan in an effort to swim to California, undaunted by sharks, low temperatures, fierce weather, a gigantic garbage patch—and the fact that nobody has even swum across the...
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24-Year-Old's Plan to Clean Up Ocean Plastic Gets a Tweak
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 is in the...
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Another Setback for Ocean Cleanup Device
Great Pacific Garbage Patch: 2, Wilson: 0. That’s the score some two months after Dutch nonprofit Ocean Cleanup launched a plastic collection system, nicknamed Wilson, designed to capture trash...
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24-Year-Old Relaunches Device to Trap Ocean Plastic
A floating device designed to catch plastic waste has been redeployed in a second attempt to clean up a huge island of trash swirling in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. Boyan Slat, the...
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Surprising Species Are Finding Home in Pacific Garbage Patch
Communities of coastal creatures are thriving far from home in the swirling trash soup that is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch . Researchers have found dozens of creatures normally found near...
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'Worrying' Find Made in Pacific Plastic Research
The plastic problem in the world's oceans is a lot bigger than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, researchers say. In a study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology , researchers...
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