The 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting
In the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, hundreds of miles from any major city, plastic bottles, children's toys, broken electronics, abandoned fishing nets and millions more fragments of debris are floating in the water - at least 87,000 tons' worth, researchers said Thursday.
The 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Is Ballooning
World's Largest Collection of Ocean Garbage Now Twice the Size of Texas
World's largest collection of ocean garbage is now twice the size of Texas
The world's largest collection of ocean garbage is growing. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of plastic, floating trash located halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles, a study published Thursday finds. That's twice the size of Texas.
Turtle Season. Watch for Them on Roadways -- Don't Run Over Them! And Don't Take One Home.
Box Turtle Conservation
Box turtles have unfortunate seen better days in the wild. Various factors, most of them human-related such as exports for the pet trade and loss of habitat is causing the population of box turtles to dwindle. Because of this, it's important to know about the threat and what we can do to reverse it.
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