BBCNEWS BBC News December 5, 2021 18:23:00
Species living thousands of kilometres from their usual habitats, on a patch halfway between the coast of california and hawaii. it�*s estimated that 80,000 tonnes of debris are distributed over 1.6 million square kilometres. dr linsey haram is the lead researcher who carried out the work at the smithsonian environmental research centre. she told me what had been found. these were discovered by our collaborators and citizen scientists in the great pacific garbage patch. they were small debris items. up to large abandon fishing nets. all sorts of species — crabs and barnacles, both native o...