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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t a just a floating trash pile
The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...
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Scientists Uncover 100,000 Submerged Mountains Beneath the Ocean Floor in Breakthrough Map
In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to ...
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Scientists Create One of the Most Detailed Maps of the Ocean Floor, Find Close to 100,000 Submerged Mountains
This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...
NASA’s Satellite Just Uncovered 100,000 Hidden Mountains Beneath the Ocean
We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...
Easter Island’s volcanoes are older than the ocean floor
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...
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OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION
At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea ... Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of ...
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Another tiny Pacific nation courts China for deep-sea mining riches
Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China, dangling access to a vast patch of Pacific Ocean harbouring coveted metals and minerals. Beijing has been ...
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Pacific deep-sea mining interests reveal rare species, and a scramble to name them
As deep-sea mining interests in the Pacific Ocean grow, scientists have discovered ... their distribution is," she told AFP. This would map out a baseline for life in the abyssal plain, so that ...