Friday, June 8, 2012

Great pacific garbage patch

  • Our earth is covered by more than 75 percent water, yet we know more about the moon than the depths of the sea. Today on World Oceans Day we celebrate and honor oceans by recognizing the underwater footprint we all unknowingly leave behind.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Debris from the Japanese tsunami is starting to wash ashore on the U.S. West Coast in a big way.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • As worrisome as tsunami debris is to West Coast officials and residents, the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch that is trapped in the gyre 1,000 miles off California poses even more of a threat, marine scientists say.
  • (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • Researchers and environmentalists are worried over the potential harm that could be produced from the garbage that already has begun to wash ashore on the west coast of the United States.
  • (Christian Post)
  • Recently, a Japanese dock washed up on a California beach. The casualty of Japan's horrific tsunami has many fearing that their summer beach vacation will be impacted by flotsam and debris from last year's biggest natural disaster.
  • (dbtechno.com)
  • Headed to the beach this summer? Dont forget to pack the sunscreen, the inner tubes, the paddle ball, and an effing trash bag the size of your house because the sad news, folks, is that youre going to need it.
  • (The Stir)
  • Imagine a landfill twice the size of Texas, filled with junk, castoffs and other trash. Now imagine it's floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
  • (Time)
  • Even my business, Method, has developed a way to turn plastic floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into usable bottles.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • And much of the debris will never make its way ashore at all but will remain in the ocean, swirling into a vast collection of floating trash known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • What is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now the size of the United States, according to Moore. Wind and ocean currents sweep up this garbage and deposit it in this slow-moving gyre.
  • (Scientific American)

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