Satellites have long been used to track plastic in the ocean but have struggled to accurately spot pollution against a ... used to monitor forest growth and map bushfires from above.
The researchers used boats and planes to map this area ... effort showed that plastic pollution is "increasing exponentially and at a faster rate than in the surrounding water", said the ...
UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by ... of our extraordinary location at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
But what if you could first map the pollution hotspots ... Satellite imagery is already used to track plastic floating in our ...
Scientists are working on a technique to track plastic debris in the ocean from space ... is primarily to make a continuously evolving map of Earth's land surfaces, but in the process they ...
Using the map below, click and drag around the garbage patch (shown ... but we’re committed to the long struggle to reduce ocean plastic pollution.
Using the map below, click and drag around the garbage patch (shown ... but we’re committed to the long struggle to reduce ocean plastic pollution.