Pacific Plastic Problem Looks Grim

Two lanternfish and plastic debris that were collected during the SEAPLEX voyage.

News about the marine plastic problem isn’t very uplighfting these days. The first scientific results from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego (UCSD) offer a bleak view of an area of the ocean that has been dubbed as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Peter Davison and Rebecca Asch with the Scripps [...]