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  2. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Wikipedia

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    Great Pacific Garbage Patch in August 2015 (model) The patch is created in the gyre of the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch [1]) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean.

  3. Garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    The South Pacific garbage patch is an area of ocean with increased levels of marine debris and plastic particle pollution, within the ocean's pelagic zone. This area is in the South Pacific Gyre , which itself spans from waters east of Australia to the South American continent, as far north as the Equator , and south until reaching the ...

  4. South Pacific garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    The South Pacific garbage patch is an area of ocean with increased levels of marine debris and plastic particle pollution, within the ocean's pelagic zone. This area is in the South Pacific Gyre , which itself spans from waters east of Australia to the South American continent, as far north as the Equator , and south until reaching the ...

  5. North Pacific Gyre - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch [8]) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N. [9] The collection of plastic and floating trash originates from the Pacific Rim, including ...

  6. South Pacific Gyre - Wikipedia

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    Map of ocean currents circa 1943 This photo demonstrates the dispersal of plastic fragments of various sizes Visualization of the flow pattern of ocean pollutants The South Pacific garbage patch is an area of ocean with increased levels of marine debris and plastic particle pollution, within the ocean's pelagic zone. This area is in the South ...

  7. The world’s largest iceberg is spinning in an ocean vortex ...

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    The roughly 3,672-square-kilometer (1,418-square-mile) chunk of ice — slightly bigger than Rhode Island and more than twice the size of the city of London — drifted over a seamount and got ...

  8. Polar vortex to blast 30 states with life-threatening cold ...

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    The potentially life-threatening cold is due to the disrupted polar vortex. The FOX Forecast Center said a lobe of the polar vortex will dip to the south and move into the U.S. this weekend and ...

  9. Charles J. Moore - Wikipedia

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    Moore is the founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education [4] in Long Beach, California.. In 2008 the Foundation co-sponsored the JUNK Raft project, to "creatively raise awareness about plastic debris and pollution in the ocean", and specifically the Great Pacific Garbage Patch trapped in the North Pacific Gyre, by sailing 2,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean on a 30-foot-long (9.1 m ...