The Latest in IT Security

Millions of tons of ocean plastic has gone missing

01
Jul
2014

For a decade or more, scientists have assumed our seas carry millions of tons of plastic, much of which should be floating in open water, forming vast midocean gyres — islands of man-made mess such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The study outlines the findings of scientists who trawled the waters around five large ocean gyres in 2010 and 2011. Carlos Duarte, an oceanographer at the University of Western Australia and co-author of the study, said that the findings mean we cant account for 99% of the plastic that we have in the ocean. The missing plastic could have been eaten by ocean animals

Comments are closed.

Categories

FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2024
WHITE PAPERS

Mission-Critical Broadband – Why Governments Should Partner with Commercial Operators:
Many governments embrace mobile network operator (MNO) networks as ...

ARA at Scale: How to Choose a Solution That Grows With Your Needs:
Application release automation (ARA) tools enable best practices in...

The Multi-Model Database:
Part of the “new normal” where data and cloud applications are ...

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments