Not just floating around the northern Pacific Ocean, it's now on podcast too.
To the likes of the New York Times Magazine "Sea of trash" and Harper's "Moby Duck", please welcome Jody Roberts' voice to the bibliography of garbage swirling around the sea. It's all here in this Distillation's podcast, "Cleaning Up", from the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
My favorite thing about Christmas is the stories. To me, the holiday comes wrapped in pictures, histories, tales, and yarns just like the gifts setting under the tree. The feast begins after Thanksgiving Day as networks broadcast animated snowmen, elves, and reindeer. Classic stories like Miracle…
tags: oceanography, plastic bathtub toys, duckies
Have you seen one of these duckies? (May be bleached white by now).
If so, please report your find to researcher, Curtis Ebbesmeyer.
Image: Simon de Bruxelles.
If you live in Great Britain, you could earn a £50 (US$100) reward if you find a…
One of our astute readers pointed us to this piece published in today's The independent titled The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan. IF EVER there was a reason to join Craig in his Just One Thing Challenge. Now is the time!
"A "plastic soup" of waste floating…
I know everyone in the sci-blogosphere is swooning over Carl Sagan. But as a kid I never cared much about him - I usually fell asleep halfway through each episode of 'Cosmos'. But I would not miss for anything an episode of 'The Underwater Odyssey of Commander Cousteau' with Jacques-Yves Cousteau.…
Ahem... Deep Sea News and The Oyster's Garter also discussed this issue how innaccurate that map depicts ocean currents (in february).
so do we clean it up and if so....who?