Plastic isn’t just pollution anymore: Scientists find marine life thriving and reproducing on plastic debris in Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Plastic waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is no longer just pollution; it's a home now. Scientists have found marine ...
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The Great Pacific Garbage, once the world’s dirtiest ocean zone, is now home to dozens of species

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s ...
Earth.com

Green sea turtles are ingesting plastic from far beyond their range

“During their long journey to Ogasawara Islands, the green turtles are likely to ingest and accumulate plastic distributed ...

Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds

When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery ...
EurekAlert!

7-year study reveals plastic fragments from all over the globe are rising rapidly in the North Pacific Garbage Patch

A study published today in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that centimetre-sized plastic fragments are increasing much faster than larger floating plastics in the North ...
The Conversation

One green sea turtle can contain the equivalent of 10 ping pong balls in plastic

Xia (Alice) Zhu receives funding from the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Chelsea Rochman receives funding from NSERC, ECCC, DFO. Matthew Mazloff receives funding from NASA, NOAA, NSF, UCSD. Memorial ...