Oceanology of the United States, recently returned from an expedition in the North Pacific Ocean on the study little-known cluster of ocean debris (SEAPLEX), first received a complete picture of the plastic waste scattered in the open ocean, it is reported on the website of the National Science Foundation.
research vessel New Horizon with a team of 30 scientists, technicians and other crew members on board sailed into a three-week trip, organized by the California Scripps Oceanographic Institution.
Before this study was little known about the size and boundaries of trash continent in the North Pacific. Its existence was known only to fishermen reported. According to scientists, in the area of the ocean currents form a giant ring in the center and became the trash island or trash vortex.
expedition planned to explore how much debris, in particular, small pieces of plastic are collected in the area, as this material is distributed and the effect on marine organisms, especially plankton, micro-organisms on small fish and birds.
We relied on the field with a high content of plastic waste, so that we can begin to understand the scale of the problem. We also looked at everything that happens to phytoplankton and zooplankton, as well as small fish - the expedition leader, said researcher Miriam Goldsteyn.
The expedition found large accumulations of plastic waste, which included, for example, plastic bottles, with a variety of creatures that have settled in them. In particular, the researchers came across a large network, which hit the plastic waste and a variety of marine organisms, and the bottles that were floating around on the ocean surface, were covered by different water-dwellers, and even large cancers.
Detection of such a large number of plastic was a big shock. How could so much plastic to be in this place of the ocean - a thousand miles from earth, - notes Goldsteyn.
debris, which can be seen from the deck of the ship, relatively few. Most of the waste is a small plastic particles are uniformly dispersed in the upper layer of water.
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Plastic garbage goes astray in the depths of the Pacific continent
Oceanology of the United States, recently returned from an expedition in the North Pacific Ocean on the study little-known cluster of ocean debris (SEAPLEX), first received a complete picture of the plastic waste scattered in the open ocean, it is reported on the website of the National Science Foundation.
research vessel New Horizon with a team of 30 scientists, technicians and other crew members on board sailed into a three-week trip, organized by the California Scripps Oceanographic Institution.
Before this study was little known about the size and boundaries of trash continent in the North Pacific. Its existence was known only to fishermen reported. According to scientists, in the area of the ocean currents form a giant ring in the center and became the trash island or trash vortex.
expedition planned to explore how much debris, in particular, small pieces of plastic are collected in the area, as this material is distributed and the effect on marine organisms, especially plankton, micro-organisms on small fish and birds.
We relied on the field with a high content of plastic waste, so that we can begin to understand the scale of the problem. We also looked at everything that happens to phytoplankton and zooplankton, as well as small fish - the expedition leader, said researcher Miriam Goldsteyn.
The expedition found large accumulations of plastic waste, which included, for example, plastic bottles, with a variety of creatures that have settled in them. In particular, the researchers came across a large network, which hit the plastic waste and a variety of marine organisms, and the bottles that were floating around on the ocean surface, were covered by different water-dwellers, and even large cancers.
Detection of such a large number of plastic was a big shock. How could so much plastic to be in this place of the ocean - a thousand miles from earth, - notes Goldsteyn.
debris, which can be seen from the deck of the ship, relatively few. Most of the waste is a small plastic particles are uniformly dispersed in the upper layer of water.
Crimea is a resort of beggars
Because of the reduction in the number of holidaymakers holiday season in the peninsula was shorter than usual …
Mobile ball
desire to save on mobile communication with the illegal numbers and sim-cards can be a great loss …
Schwarzenegger earned a flea market $ 1 million
Chernovetsky sold Maybach and Kilchytska - Hammer
officials prefer to Mercy, Bentley and BMW …
Antimonopoly Office of Germany carried out raids at meat factories
Defense Week published the rating of the market leaders in arms
German ministers caught in the use of official vehicles leave
Good morning! Information Group Finam.ru and Investment Company Finam Welcome to your site and wish you good day!
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