Where do microplastics go in the oceans?
Where do tiny bits of plastic go when they are flushed out to sea?
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Arctic ice sets speed limit for major ocean current
The Beaufort Gyre is an enormous, 600-mile-wide pool of swirling cold, fresh water in the Arctic Ocean, just north of Alaska and Canada. In the winter, this current is covered by a thick cap of ice. Each summer, as the ice ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2018
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How phytoplankton survive in ocean gyres with low nutrient supplies
Subtropical gyres are huge, sustained currents spanning thousands of kilometers across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, where very little grows.
Earth Sciences
Sep 17, 2018
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Giant iceberg escapes
In July 2017, one of the largest icebergs on record calved from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica. However, sea ice to the east and shallow waters to the north kept this giant berg, named A68, hemmed in. So for more than ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2018
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An underwater glider for measuring turbulence in Lake Geneva
Huge systems of rotating water masses—called gyres—form in oceans and large lakes. Two EPFL laboratories, working with the University of California, Davis, are using an underwater glider to explore one such gyre in Lake ...
Environment
Aug 22, 2018
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No escaping ocean plastic: 37 million bits of litter on one of world's remotest islands
The beaches of one of the world's most remote islands have been found to be polluted with the highest density of plastic debris reported anywhere on the planet, in a study published in the prestigious US scientific journal ...
Environment
May 15, 2017
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Microbes in the seafloor: Little nutrients, lots of oxygen
About one quarter of the global seafloor is extremely nutrient poor. Contrary to previous assumptions, it contains oxygen not just in the thin surface layer, but also throughout its entire thickness. The underlying basement ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2015
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Satellite tags, fishing data reveal turtle danger zones
(Phys.org) —One of the biggest threats to critically endangered leatherback turtles is bycatch from industrial fishing in the open oceans.
Ecology
Jan 22, 2014
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Why leatherback turtles linger in South Pacific Gyre, and why it matters
Leatherbacks. They are the Olympians of the turtle world – swimming farther, diving deeper and venturing into colder waters than any other marine turtle species. But for all their toughness, they have still suffered ...
Ecology
Feb 8, 2011
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