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Stories about: Great Pacific Garbage Patch

North Pacific Garbage Patch Reveals Junk of All Sizes The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is probably one of the few places in the world you really don't want your ship to down near. What may seem like a chain of islands from well above turns out to be nothing but hundreds of miles of loosely bound trash, floating around in the Northern Pacific Ocean. But the accurate ... 28 August 2009 01:40 GMT Scientists Set to Investigate North Pacific Garbage Patch A group of marine biologists and environmentalists from California is setting sail to the Northern Pacific this week, to visit the immense patch of garbage that has accumulated in the region due to converging currents. In the years since this formation has been made public, it has become obvious that the patch, now t... 5 August 2009 02:47 GMT