He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Marshall Islands government has announced it will protect an area of the Pacific Ocean described as one of the most “remote, pristine ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s history Joel Sams The waters around two remote atolls in the central ...

The Ocean Cleanup Project will sail out of San Francisco Bay on a mission to gather up millions of tonnes of plastic floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, using a specially designed ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean ... on marine life and plans to launch an inquiry into the effects on human health, including fetal formation. One study found that man-made marine debris ...

It is well-established that phytoplankton growth can be limited by the vanishingly low concentrations of dissolved iron found in large areas of the open ocean. However, the availability of iron is not ...

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