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Scientists have discovered marine animals living on plastic rubbish dubbed the great garbage patch in the pacific ocean. plants and animals were found on 90% of the waste between the coast of california and hawaii. youre watching bbc news. now its time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello, again. weve got an east—west split with our weather patterns, today. certainly for eastern england, theres going to be quite a lot of cloud and some pantry outbreaks of rain. the rain tending t...

Fun facts about the word “orange.” A 1909 patent for a font that can be read either from left to right or right to left. How typeface choice can impact learning and comprehension. Public radio may help save newspapers. Graphene’s uses in dental applications. Meet the Flingbot and its approach to abstract art. What’s behind The Great Resignation? An approach to removing ocean plastic that just might work. A traffic camera confuses a T-shirt with a license plate. Fisher Price’s classic C...

A prototype system to collect floating plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has proven its worth by hauling in 29,000 kilograms of plastic material, the environmental organization behind the . . .

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A new device has proved cleaning up the ocean is possible as it managed to extract 20,000 pounds of rubbish from the Pacific Garbage Patch.  The aptly named ‘Garbage Patch’ is located between Hawaii and California and is estimated to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic; the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in …

Having had a chin wag with climate advocate and excellent human Varsha Yajman – all I can say is that young kids these days are incredible.

Holidays that to be acceptable consumers i dont think is all that likely to be except maybe somethings a thrust upon us and we go along with it but i think the thing is that in actual fact germany is not proposing outright ban just as it hasnt done with plastic carrier bags i mean a lot of countries around the world have actually as you said theyve regulated theyve imposed bans jimmy hasnt done that its there is a fee to pay for them now but still a lot of people use them and theres no sign of a...

Spain, it is also the size of a massive area of floating trash known as the great pacific garbage patch. according to a new study, its up to 16 times larger than previously thought. after a two-year study, researchers found that 1.8 billibil trillion pieces of trash were in this garbage patch. this is made with rescyclable flexible pipes. it will be weighted by anchors so the cleanup contraption moves slower than the ocean currents that will trap the garbage that will be recycled back on to dry ...

In case you missed it, sunday was earth day and this year earth day was focused on ending plastic pollution, like the massive garbage patch in the middle of the pacific ocean which is increasing exponenti exponentially. it the floati ining mounds of plastic now cover an area the side of france. thats the bad news, but heres some good news. scientists have stumbled on a so-callso oe kaul so-called mutant enzyme that will break down plastic, far faster than the centurieies it will take in the ocea...

I cant believe that number. its going to take a lot work and perhaps you and i should go to river and clean there. >> river cleanups. they have that here. >> yes. >> like you said, we have more about it. the south pacific garbage patch is now larger than mexico and researchers say it will keep growing unless society changes how it handles plastic. here is more from linda kincaid. >> reporter: the south pacific ocean, a vast marine landscape, a precious part of our earth. but take a closer look a...