BBC6 年
Plastic patch in Pacific Ocean growing rapidly, study shows
A collection of plastic afloat in the Pacific ... the largest being the patch located between Hawaii and California. The researchers used boats and planes to map this area of the North Pacific ...
The incredible garbage island three times the size of France floating in the Pacific
A garbage island made of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic spread across nearly 618,000 square miles and weighing 100,000 tonnes ...
BBC1 年
A mission to the Pacific plastic patch
He was part of the team which discovered the first ocean "garbage patch" in the North Pacific gyre in 1997 and has now turned his attention to the South Pacific. Although plastic is known to occur ...