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The Latest. There’s less plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from land than scientists previously thought, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.. The ...
The ocean is full of tiny plastic particles. Now we can track them with satellites. The first step to understanding how microplastics are affecting the ocean is to learn how much—and where ...
Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. They identified 484 marine invertebrate organisms on ...
The Ocean Cleanup aims to be a temporary effort, with the ambition to reduce floating ocean plastic pollution by 90% by 2040. We will cease to exist once our mission of clean oceans has been achieved.
Source: More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean; The Ocean Cleanup Note: Data from 2020. Rio Motagua data from 2022.
Still, an estimated 33 billion pounds of plastic enter the ocean every year, according to Oceana. “That is roughly equivalent to dumping two garbage trucks full of plastic into the ocean every ...
Others say the ocean isn’t that full of plastic, and there are more animals above ground, so isn’t it better to place plastic where humans aren’t?
It was the summer of 2017 when he and fellow surfer Andrew Cooper first arrived to the beaches of Bali, Indonesia expecting to find paradise and instead found an ocean full of plastic.
On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to ...