Showing posts with label pollution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pollution. Show all posts

Friday, November 19, 2010

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be Studied

The garbage patch, located 1000 miles west of California, is now estimated to be almost twice the size of Texas. It consists of discarded fishing lines, plastic bottles, and other garbage that has been collecting for decades. Now a group of scientists are setting sail to study it.

Read the article to find out more about it.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Poisoned Waters - Frontline Report

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines the growing hazards to human health and the ecosystems of the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound due to polluted runoff from industry, agriculture and massive suburban development.

View the 2 hour Frontline special