WOA World Overpopulation Awareness is a nonprofit web publication seeking to inform people about overpopulation, unsustainability, and overconsumption the. Between the fixed sound, the great looking replica chassis, and the systems introduction of a rewind ability and save states, the Sega Flashback could be a great. FILE This Aug. 11, 2009 file image provided by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows a patch of sea garbage at sea in the Pacific Ocean. For the first couple of years of this page I showed a picture of a man in a canoe paddling though trash to depict the Great pacific garbage patch. Increased significantly in five regions of the subtropical ocean. The two most dramatic increases took place in the area corresponding to the North Pacific garbage. Warmer Oceans and Marine Life. SEAPLEX researchers encountered a large ghost net with tangled rope, net, plastic, and various biological organisms. Matt Durham right is pictured with Miriam Goldstein. North Pacific Gyre Junk from 5 Gyres on Vimeo. Around the world, plastic pollution has become a growing plague. In this video Dr. Toy Story 3 2010 takes place about 10 years after the second film Andynow almost 18is getting ready for college, and the plot follows the. Marcus Eriksen sailed a vessel named Junk made out of plastic bottles from LA to Hawaii to research the problem and raise awareness. Learn more at 5gyres. In the summer of 2. Miriam Goldstein, a graduate student studying biological oceanography at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., led a research cruise of fellow graduate students into the eastern North Pacific garbage patch to sample the plastic and study its impact. What the students saw surprised them. One hundred consecutive quarter mile long plankton tows over 1,7. Goldstein said it was crazy. Every time we put a plankton net in, we would find these tiny pieces of plastic that looked like confetti or a snow globe. The student researchers addressed a wide variety of questions about the plastics impact. Of great concern is the extent to which organisms, from birds to fish to zooplankton, ingest the tiny plastic grains. Studies have shown that Laysan albatross chicks, especially those hatched near a garbage patch in the western North Pacific, have consumed large quantities of plastic. Researchers have also found plastic in the guts of some fish species. Biologists fear that the plastic may interfere with digestion by clogging the gut or by simply replacing real food and the nutrition it provides. Some plastics may contain toxins. Other plastics may absorb and therefore concentrate toxins from the surrounding water. Theoretically, these toxins could then get passed up the food chain as predators devour the consumers. Given our taste for large predators such as tuna, the toxins could perhaps reach our dinner plates. Other potential impacts of the plastic are less direct. Goldstein is investigating the extent to which invertebrates such as crabs, shellfish larvae, and barnacles hitch rides on the plastic to parts of the ocean where they are normally not found. Great Western Garbage Patch' title='Great Western Garbage Patch' />The introduction of new species to an area can sometimes change an ecosystem by suppressing native species or altering the food web. Even bacteria colonizing the floating plastic can alter the flow of nutrients in the water. Goldstein says that the cruise participants are now back in the lab engaged in the time consuming processes of sorting through the plastic they recovered, dissecting fish, and identifying and cataloging the organisms found on the plastic. For years, garbage patches, for all their enormity, have remained out of sight. Through the efforts of these scientists and environmental organizations, the scope of the threat that garbage patches pose is just beginning to enter the publics conscience. Unraveling the interplay between weather patterns and ocean currents that create theses garbage patches remains a daunting challenge. The world population is conglomerating along the coasts, standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic pollution waste tide ever faced. Greenpeace en Article de la radiodiffusion publique des tatsUnis Navigating the Pacifics Garbage Patch. Latest environmental news, features and updates. Pictures, video and more. So does unraveling the impact of the plastic on the complex marine ecosystems. The scientists are ready to meet the challenge. The question is whether the world that produces and throws away so much plastic is also ready. The worlds rubbish dump a tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan. A plastic soup of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said. The vast expanse of debris in effect the worlds largest rubbish dump is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting soup stretches from about 5. Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. Charles Moore, an American oceanographer who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or trash vortex, believes that about 1. Marcus Eriksen, a research director of the US based Algalita Marine Research Foundation, which Mr Moore founded, said yesterday The original idea that people had was that it was an island of plastic garbage that you could almost walk on. It is not quite like that. It is almost like a plastic soup. It is endless for an area that is maybe twice the size as continental United States. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer and leading authority on flotsam, has tracked the build up of plastics in the seas for more than 1. It moves around like a big animal without a leash. When that animal comes close to land, as it does at the Hawaiian archipelago, the results are dramatic. The garbage patch barfs, and you get a beach covered with this confetti of plastic, he added. The soup is actually two linked areas, either side of the islands of Hawaii, known as the Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches. About one fifth of the junk which includes everything from footballs and kayaks to Lego blocks and carrier bags is thrown off ships or oil platforms. The rest comes from land. Mr Moore, a former sailor, came across the sea of waste by chance in 1. Los Angeles to Hawaii yacht race. He had steered his craft into the North Pacific gyre a vortex where the ocean circulates slowly because of little wind and extreme high pressure systems. Usually sailors avoid it. He was astonished to find himself surrounded by rubbish, day after day, thousands of miles from land. Pro Dns And Bind Pdf. Every time I came on deck, there was trash floating by, he said in an interview. How could we have fouled such a huge area How could this go on for a weekMr Moore, the heir to a family fortune from the oil industry, subsequently sold his business interests and became an environmental activist. He warned yesterday that unless consumers cut back on their use of disposable plastics, the plastic stew would double in size over the next decade. Professor David Karl, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii, said more research was needed to establish the size and nature of the plastic soup but that there was no reason to doubt Algalitas findings. After all, the plastic trash is going somewhere and it is about time we get a full accounting of the distribution of plastic in the marine ecosystem and especially its fate and impact on marine ecosystems. Professor Karl is co ordinating an expedition with Algalita in search of the garbage patch later this year and believes the expanse of junk actually represents a new habitat. Historically, rubbish that ends up in oceanic gyres has biodegraded. But modern plastics are so durable that objects half a century old have been found in the north Pacific dump. Every little piece of plastic manufactured in the past 5. Tony Andrady, a chemist with the US based Research Triangle Institute. Mr Moore said that because the sea of rubbish is translucent and lies just below the waters surface, it is not detectable in satellite photographs. You only see it from the bows of ships, he said. According to the UN Environment Programme, plastic debris causes the deaths of more than a million seabirds every year, as well as more than 1. Syringes, cigarette lighters and toothbrushes have been found inside the stomachs of dead seabirds, which mistake them for food. Plastic is believed to constitute 9. The UN Environment Programme estimated in 2. Dr Eriksen said the slowly rotating mass of rubbish laden water poses a risk to human health, too. Hundreds of millions of tiny plastic pellets, or nurdles the raw materials for the plastic industry are lost or spilled every year, working their way into the sea. These pollutants act as chemical sponges attracting man made chemicals such as hydrocarbons and the pesticide DDT. They then enter the food chain. What goes into the ocean goes into these animals and onto your dinner plate. Its that simple, said Dr Eriksen.