by SUSAN CASEY
A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility…and worse…

LONG BEACH, California (4 Nov 2007) — Fate can take strange forms, and so perhaps it does not seem unusual that [...]

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CHARLES MOORE Santa Barbara News - Press 27 oct 02
An albatross carcass shows how much plastic the great birds can ingest from the Pacific Ocean.
There is a large part of the central Pacific Ocean that no one ever visits and only a few ever pass through. Sailors avoid it like the plague for it [...]

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In the broad expanse of the northern Pacific Ocean, there exists the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a slowly moving, clockwise spiral of currents created by a high-pressure system of air currents. The area is an oceanic desert, filled with tiny phytoplankton but few big fish or mammals. Due to its lack of large fish and [...]

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LOS ANGELES TIMES
By Kenneth R. Weiss, Times Staff Writer
August 2, 2006
MIDWAY ATOLL — The albatross chick jumped to its feet, eyes alert and focused. At 5 months, it stood 18 inches tall and was fully feathered except for the fuzz that fringed its head.
All attitude, the chick straightened up and clacked its beak at [...]

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Wired
The United Nations has turned its attention to the oceans for World Environment Day, and one of the main evildoers is a familiar one — plastic.
Marine trash, mainly plastic, is killing more than a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year, said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a statement.
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