News tagged with sargasso sea

In North Atlantic, researchers find a sea of garbage

The North Atlantic Ocean is looking more like a rubbish bin, with plastic and polystyrene flotsom spreading far and wide, according to four French explorers just back from eight months at sea.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 13, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 8

Exploring hidden life’s abundance

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two miles below the surface of the Sargasso Sea lies a depression in the Earth’s crust filled with sediment and, scientists believe, teeming with life — exotic, microscopic, and very likely ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0