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Plastic – Thus Began the Problem of Marine Debris
The organic synthetic polymer that we usually call “plastic” was invented in the 20th century, specifically, in 1907. The plastic industry began to really take off in the 1930s, when various…
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The Tiny Giants Who Eat Microplastics – Zooplankto…
The Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK published a video that showed how zoopl…
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Seabirds Become Tangled by Plastic Debris Used as …
The most apparent way in which wild animals can be harmed by marine debris is th…
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Seabird Chicks are Eating Plastic Debris without N…
Marine debris is becoming one of the most terrifying threats to wild animals and…
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The Reason Why Fossil Marine Plastic May Exist Som…
In 2010, 8 million tons of plastic garbage was thrown into the ocean（Jambeck et …
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“We will not offer plastics anymore!” – US Aquariu…
US aquariums have embarked upon the eradication of plastics, proclaiming that th…
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Is Agriculture Also a Source of Marine Plastic Deb…
Agriculture is an industry that is responsible for a significant amount of plast…
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Plastic Pollution – 37,000,000 Pieces of Tra…
A desert island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What scenery can you imagi…
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Ghost Net – The Devil; When Marine Animals Get Tan…
Every day, marine animals that have become tangled with plastic marine debris ar…
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What is marine debris? And what is the problem wit…
When you hear the word “marine debris”, the first things that come to mind may b…
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Ryota Nakajima, Ph.D.
Ryota is a biological oceanographer at JAMSTEC, Japan, with major interests in deep-sea and coral reef ecology.
