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First of Kind Map Reveals Extent of Ocean Plastic
2014-07-15 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: When marine ecologist Andres Cozar Cabaas and a team of researchers completed the first ever map of ocean trash, something didn't quite add up. Their work, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did find millions of pieces of plastic debris floating in five large subtropical gyres in the world's oceans. But plastic production has quadrupled since the 1980s, and wind, waves, and sun break all that plastic into tiny bits the size of rice grains. So there should...
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