Great Pacific Garbage Patch a bigger worry than tsunami debris
How precious would it be to see the Great Pacific Garbage Patch wash away Chuckles Johnson? Headed to the beach this summer? Don't forget to pack the sunscreen, the inner tubes, the paddle ball, and an effing trash bag
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, sometimes referred to as the Pacific Trash Vortex is a gyre (system of rotating ocean currents) of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean. The Patch extends over a wide area and is
In the news: The West Coast is stepping up preparations for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and other tsunami debris after a dock from Japan washed up in Oregon this week. Experts say the debris can be expected any time from now until 2014,
Still, marine scientists say a far bigger problem is the untold amount of everyday garbage swirling in a vast, slow-moving vortex known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That's the popular name for the vast concentration of debris — most of it
The great Pacific garbage reality It's not tsunami debris we should fear; it's the trash clogging our oceans. A rusting Harley-Davidson from Miyagi prefecture, Japan, was discovered on a remote beach in British Columbia in late April and photographed
