Great Pacific Garbage Patch a bigger worry than tsunami debris
Debris from the Japanese tsunami is starting to wash ashore on
the U.S. West Coast in a big way. Beachcombers from Northern
California to Alaska are finding fishing floats, soccer balls
and ships that have drifted thousands of miles across... Digging
into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Our earth is covered by
more than 75 percent water, yet we know more about the moon than
the depths of the sea. Today on World Oceans Day we celebrate
and honor oceans by recognizing the underwater footprint we all
unknowingly leave behind. When it comes to plastic, what you
throw away doesn't really go [...] The Great Pacific Garbage
Patch The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a swirling mass of
marine debris, a Plastic Soup of discarded bags and bottles, in
the north-east of the Pacific Ocean, whose mass is impossible to
determine accurately. An expedition to explore the patch sets
sail from San Diego, California on May 28. World's oceans are
'plasticized' A marine