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Where Does the Plastic Go? Marine Plastic Waste’s Whereabouts Are Unknown
A Spanish research team has for the first time unveiled a map of how widespread garbage is in the open ocean. The map is given below.This is a study of how much drifting plastic has accu…
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Microplastics in the Livers of Anchovies?
A research team in Bergin has reported finding plastics in the livers of Europea…
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The World Record Holding Swimmer Swims the Great P…
There is a superman who once swam across the Atlantic Ocean without a kickboard.…
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Could the Ocean Hold More Plastic than Fish?
Global plastic production is escalating by 5% annually (Andrady & Neal 2009)…
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Deep in the Sea – Plastic Debris Where Human Being…
There may no longer be any perfectly clear seas anymore – when JAMSTEC’s(Japan A…
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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…
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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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Ryota Nakajima, Ph.D.
Ryota is a biological oceanographer at JAMSTEC, Japan, with major interests in deep-sea and coral reef ecology.
