This photo's real, but doesn't show 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'
In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...
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New ideas on how to cleanup the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'
Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...
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How big is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...
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That massive garbage patch in the ocean is bigger and grosser than ever
The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than ... Today, scientists know that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex ...
How circulation patterns of surface currents could help clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...
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The giant garbage vortex in the Pacific Ocean is over twice the size of Texas - here's what it looks like
The term "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" refers to a massive area more than 1.6 million square kilometers in size, but it's just part of the North Pacific gyre, an ocean region where currents ...
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A giant trash vortex's growing in the ocean. Now a cleanup effort's underway.
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Long-Distance Swimmer Ben Lecomte Swam 338 Nautical Miles Through the Pacific Garbage Patch for Science
That swath of water is home to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest accumulation of plastic trash in all the world’s oceans. The Ocean Cleanup, an organization working to remove plastic ...
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The 25-year-old trying to rid the world's oceans of plastic just created a floating garbage truck that collects trash from rivers
The largest of these vortexes, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is located in Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. It's estimated to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating ...