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 Caroline Power captured the picture, which shows a large area ...
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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
There might be more than 16 times as much plastic in the vortex than previous studies have estimated, according to the Ocean Cleanup researchers. An aerial view of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...
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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 ... aboard the sailboat I Am Ocean and traveled through the garbage patch, also called the “plastic vortex,” to raise awareness around ...
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QuickCheck: Is there a 'garbage island' bigger than Texas in the Pacific Ocean?
The massive collection of debris in the Pacific Ocean has a formal name ... accumulates within the stable centre of the vortex, forming a 'garbage island'. However, unlike a true island, the ...
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Plastic Island
They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...