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Experts Warn About China's 'Plastic Rocks', An Environmental Nightmare
The 'plastic rocks' were found in China's Heichi City. Experts said they were formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean.
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IIT Kanpur Incubated Start-Up Develops RCC-Based Floating Solar Grid To Refine River Ghats
i-Ghat includes integrating reinforced-cement concrete (RCC) based floats with solar cells and electric-powered boats using Steel Integrated Floating Jelly (SIFJ) technology to avoid the impact of using plastic floats and also to reduce the noise and air pollution caused by diesel boats.
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Atlantic Plastic Levels Far Higher Than Thought: Study
There may be more plastic floating just beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean today than the estimated total weight of plastic waste dumped in it since 1950, new research showed Tuesday.
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Woman's Body, Wrapped In Plastic, Found Floating In Hyderabad Lake
A body of a woman wrapped in a plastic cover was found floating in a lake in Hyderabad on Saturday, the police said today.The limbs of the body were tied with a cloth, they said, adding that they were alerted about it by locals.A murder case has been registered against unknown person.
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Plastic Junk Spawns Desert Island Disaster In Pacific
Floating plastic garbage has swamped a remote Pacific island once regarded as an environmental jewel and scientists say little can be done to save it while a throwaway culture persists.
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This Dead Whale's Stomach Had 88 Pounds Of Calcifying Trash
By the time marine biologist Darrell Blatchley arrived at the fishing village Saturday, the young Cuvier's beaked whale was already floating, dead in the water, its eyes sunken and ribs protruding through its skin
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The Giant Garbage Dump That's Floating In The Pacific Is Now Three Times The Size Of France
Seventy-nine thousand tons of plastic debris, in the form of 1.8 trillion pieces, now occupy an area three times the size of France in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, a scientific team reported on Thursday.
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Humans Have Filled The Pristine Arctic Ocean With 300 Billion Pieces Of Floating Plastic
Drifts of floating plastic that humans have dumped into the world's oceans are flowing into the pristine waters of the Arctic as a result of a powerful system of currents that deposits waste in the icy seas east of Greenland and north of Scandinavia.
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By 2050 There Will Be More Plastic Than Fish In The World's Oceans, Study Says
There is a lot of plastic in the world's oceans. It coagulates into great floating "garbage patches" that cover large swaths of the Pacific. It washes up by the truckfull on urban beaches and remote islands, tossed about in the waves and transported across incredible distances before arriving, unwanted, back on land.
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Unique floating lab showcases 'aliens of the sea'
Researcher Leonid Moroz emerges from a dive off the Florida Keys and gleefully displays a plastic bag holding a creature that shimmers like an opal in the seawater.
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Experts Warn About China's 'Plastic Rocks', An Environmental Nightmare
The 'plastic rocks' were found in China's Heichi City. Experts said they were formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean.
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IIT Kanpur Incubated Start-Up Develops RCC-Based Floating Solar Grid To Refine River Ghats
i-Ghat includes integrating reinforced-cement concrete (RCC) based floats with solar cells and electric-powered boats using Steel Integrated Floating Jelly (SIFJ) technology to avoid the impact of using plastic floats and also to reduce the noise and air pollution caused by diesel boats.
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Atlantic Plastic Levels Far Higher Than Thought: Study
There may be more plastic floating just beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean today than the estimated total weight of plastic waste dumped in it since 1950, new research showed Tuesday.
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Woman's Body, Wrapped In Plastic, Found Floating In Hyderabad Lake
A body of a woman wrapped in a plastic cover was found floating in a lake in Hyderabad on Saturday, the police said today.The limbs of the body were tied with a cloth, they said, adding that they were alerted about it by locals.A murder case has been registered against unknown person.
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Plastic Junk Spawns Desert Island Disaster In Pacific
Floating plastic garbage has swamped a remote Pacific island once regarded as an environmental jewel and scientists say little can be done to save it while a throwaway culture persists.
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This Dead Whale's Stomach Had 88 Pounds Of Calcifying Trash
By the time marine biologist Darrell Blatchley arrived at the fishing village Saturday, the young Cuvier's beaked whale was already floating, dead in the water, its eyes sunken and ribs protruding through its skin
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The Giant Garbage Dump That's Floating In The Pacific Is Now Three Times The Size Of France
Seventy-nine thousand tons of plastic debris, in the form of 1.8 trillion pieces, now occupy an area three times the size of France in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, a scientific team reported on Thursday.
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Humans Have Filled The Pristine Arctic Ocean With 300 Billion Pieces Of Floating Plastic
Drifts of floating plastic that humans have dumped into the world's oceans are flowing into the pristine waters of the Arctic as a result of a powerful system of currents that deposits waste in the icy seas east of Greenland and north of Scandinavia.
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By 2050 There Will Be More Plastic Than Fish In The World's Oceans, Study Says
There is a lot of plastic in the world's oceans. It coagulates into great floating "garbage patches" that cover large swaths of the Pacific. It washes up by the truckfull on urban beaches and remote islands, tossed about in the waves and transported across incredible distances before arriving, unwanted, back on land.
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Unique floating lab showcases 'aliens of the sea'
Researcher Leonid Moroz emerges from a dive off the Florida Keys and gleefully displays a plastic bag holding a creature that shimmers like an opal in the seawater.
