A French long-distance swimmer dove into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to show the negative — and massive — affects of single use plastics and pollution. Earlier in the year, Ben Lecomte dove into ...
A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different species in the "garbage vortex" that floats between California and Hawaii Anna Lazarus Caplan ...
Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on Earth, a group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco today to the “Great Pacific Garbage ...
The looming threat of the giant distant garbage vortex swirling around the Pacific Ocean is a haunting notion, but not necessarily a tangible one. Visualizing the nature and scale of the patch, and ...
Wanted: a seaworthy barge for picking up garbage from the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That’s what officials from Project Kaisei looked for recently in San Diego. The Sausalito-based group is trying ...
Because nothing makes you feel better about being a living, breathing, plastic-licking human on this planet today than the thought of a massive, eternal, slowly swirling vortex of noxious garbage the ...
In the summer of 1997, sea captain and surfer Charles Moore was sailing home from Hawaii. He’d been recently finished the TransPacific Yacht Race, and on the way back to California, he decided to take ...
In June, Ben Lecomte set out on a boat from Hawaii to spend 80 days swimming through the world’s largest collection of marine litter. The 52-year old Frenchman, who has been based in the US since 1991 ...
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