Explore the potential impacts of climate change on our planet Earth and learn about solutions for adaptation and mitigation, in the context of the United Nation’s Climate Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen. Plus you get a
chance to see what all of words have been trying to communicate or as the old adage goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words!”
It’s NOT an Urban Legend about the world’s largest plastic trash islands
floating in the Pacific. There is actually two, an eastern floats between
California and Hawaii, and a western located off of the Pacific side of
Japan. Their combined area covers two times the size of Texas.
100 million tons of free floating trash. 90 percent of it is plastic.
The ocean’s natural currents keeps it floating together. A large current (more…)
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