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Photo: volunteers during the Martin Luther King Jr Day of Service, 2018. The world's largest ocean garage patch is now over 600,000 square feet. That's twice the size of Texas! Read more here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2018/03/22/great-pacific-garbage-patch-grows/446405002/ Copyright: USA Today Photo credit: me
New mapping traces origins of ocean debris
Ocean boundaries redefined
Patches of plastic debris accumulate where they are concentrated by ocean currents.
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FRISCO — Shredded bits of plastic now outweigh plankton in parts of the Pacific Ocean, posing a growing risk to to fish, turtles and birds that eat the trash. Efforts to limit the debris haven’t progressed much in the past few years, but new modeling of ocean currentsmay…
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