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Dario Izzo

The Straight Dope: Why don't we ever see pictures of the floating island of garbage? - 0 views

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garbage debris

shared by Dario Izzo on 02 Dec 13 - Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 02 Dec 13
     
    To follow up our discussio at breakfast
  • Thijs Versloot on 03 Dec 13
     
    For all your statistics needs. The "Plastic Debris in the World's Oceans Report - UNEP" www.unep.org/regionalseas/marinelitter/.../docs/plastic_ocean_report.pdf‎ "Densities of plastic debris (Moore et al. 2001). Using nets to collect debris, the abundance of floating plastic averaged 334,271 pieces/km2" More worrying maybe is (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22610295) "Our oceans eventually serve as a sink for these small plastic particles ("UV degraded surface plastic") and in one estimate, it is thought that 200,000 microplastics per km(2) of the ocean's surface commonly exist."
Nina Nadine Ridder

-- Press Releases December 2009 ... - 2 views

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climate_change earth_observation UNEP EEA

shared by Nina Nadine Ridder on 14 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 14 Dec 09
     
    The view from space showing the impact of global warming in a European Atlas of Environmental Change and Climate Communities
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