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- 19-year-old creates a way to clean the giant trash gyres floating in the oceans. Making the estimated time needed to clean them from over 79,000 Years to 5 years. http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/02/teen-inventor-creats-means-to-clean-giant-ocean-garbage-patches/ 173 comments technology
- 48-day ocean voyage expedition, has successfully removed 103 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone, more commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Gyre. https://amp.thesouthafrican.com/news/world-news/ocean-voyages-record-largest-ocean-clean-up/ 7 comments environment
- First Canadian federal assessment of Arctic Ocean finds drastic change | It's 33% less salty than in 2003 and about 30% more acidic — enough to dissolve the shells of some small molluscs. The Beaufort Gyre, a vast circular current that has alternated direction every decade, hasn't switched in 19 yrs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-ocean-assessment-change-1.5545655?fbclid=iwar3oisxtttt3ssaiizpkj-n3hetjyd8rt2zwwjamjsb69ck9omnvlhdud0e 83 comments worldnews
- A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Some 80 million kilograms of floating plastic have already accumulated in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre in the Pacific Ocean alone https://www.nioz.nl/en/news/fungus-breaks-down-ocean-plastic 43 comments science
- Arctic ice melt is changing ocean currents | "If the Beaufort Gyre were to release the excess fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean, it could potentially slow down its circulation. And that would have hemisphere-wide implications for the climate, especially in Western Europe," said lead author https://phys.org/news/2020-02-arctic-ice-ocean-currents.html 15 comments worldnews