Marauding American Signal Crayfish

Research Blog | June 13, 2009

Here I am. Say no more. I’m bigger and tastier than you are. Plus I do semaphore.

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Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic | Video on TED.com

Research Blog | April 7, 2009

Charles Moore is founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, one of the first to trawl the Garbage Patch. He captains the foundation’s research vessel, the Alguita, documenting the largest “landfills” of plastic waste that litter the oceans. “A yachting competition across the Pacific led veteran seafarer Charles Moore to discover what some have since…

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Souvenirs from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Research Blog | April 7, 2009

When I was digging around  for Paradoxical Sleep, I wanted to find out what happened after San Jose’s Guadalupe River, after the South Bay of Northern California.  The whirling gyre of nasty pollution information literally culminated in this vortex: The North Pacific Garbage Patch, an area the size of Texas that’s a confluence of ocean…

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