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Under threat mostly due to plastic pollution eight million tons of plastic are washed into the sea every year solutions are scarce but new technologies could offer asters. five gigantic marine plastic garbage islands float around the worlds ocean currents. the great pacific garbage patch drifts between hawaii and california its four times larger than germany. happily the floating quagmire could get something of a purge this summer. the ocean cleanup is the brainchild of churchmen boy and slant i...

Recent years this blanket has come under threat mostly from plastic pollution some thirteen million tons of plastic are washed into the sea every year. five gigantic marine plastic garbage islands float around the worlds ocean currents. the great pacific garbage patch drifts between hawaii and california its four times larger than germany. happily the floating quagmire could get something of a purge this summer. the ocean cleanup is the brainchild of churchmen boy and slant its a boom which drif...

Percent of our planet but in recent years this blanket has come under threat mostly from plastic pollution some eight million tons of plastic washed into the sea every year. five gigantic marine plastic garbage islands float around the worlds ocean currents. the great pacific garbage patch drifts between hawaii and california its four times larger than germany. happily the floating quagmire could get something of a purge this summer. the ocean cleanup is the brainchild of churchmen boy and slant...

Than the ocean currents to stop and track it, which will be recycled back on dry land. the system currently under construction in california will be released this summer. the ocean cleanup intends to release a whole fleet. five years later they say they will clear half the debris. many more like it. the answer is d, the number of foreign visitors to japan skyrocketed, from 8.5 million in 2010. an increase of 230% in just five years. whats going on? relaxation of visa rules have led to a huge inc...

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 1997, captain moore discovered a massive garbage patch in the north pacific. now his team has confirmed the existence of another further south off the coast of chile and peru. captain moore estimates it to be about 2 million square kilometers larger than mexico. it formed winds around a persistent high pressure system drive ocean currents creating a vortex known as gyres and causing debris to collect in a central location. >> i call it a plastic soup. if you think of the ocean as the liquid i...

Away. it can take 500 to 1,000 years for plastic to decompose. what is the plastic doing in our oceans, ivan cabrera? >> walking my dog on the ocean and i could see all of that litter. its got to get out to the ocean and where a lot of it ends up, unfortunately. lets talk about the ocean currents. then, natalie, will toss to a few pieces have good advice on what you can do to help the planet here. 8 million, that is metric tons. that is dumped into the oceans. going what is already into the ocea...

The fundamental role they play in earths carbon psych skbll if you look over there theyre trying to jump up on you the ice. its hilarious. >> yeah, theyre really cute, thats true. yeah, its -- its -- the antarctic is a cooling temper that mitigates the effects of climate change. and what happens here is having an effect on the climate of the planet. the ocean currents are driven by the cold waters of the antarctic. >> and the wildlife is central to driving carbon rich biomass to the depths of th...

Goodness that according to our calculations carbon dioxide accounts for a maximum of half of the global warming asserted by the intergovernmental panel on climate change a solar activity and ocean currents account for the rest of us. he demands to germinate postpone its energy plans be given that would give us time to adjust power generation sensibly so there will not be a climate catastrophe through chemo cut us to. foreign halters now chairman of the german foundation for wild animals. he rema...

Have a very low rates of gun violence but u.s. states and cities with strict gun laws have high rates of gun violence. >> shannon: the number of lawmakers spoke out last night to propose legislative fixes. police teams were clearing the crime scene in florida, pressure is mounting on congress to come up with solutions. >> facebook, instagram, youtube, these are forces like ocean currents, you cant stand in and make them turn around and go back. the question is what do we do? what can we do at th...