For more information about plastic check the Wikipedia article here
In the 1980s a report described how a ginormous patch of plastic trash was guided by currents and concentrated right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in an area that some estimated as being roughly two times the size of Texas. Naturally, people all over the world were outraged, but I guess it didn’t last too [...]
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
I was surprised to talk to a bunch of people today and find out they didn’t know about this, so I figured this is definitely something worth knowing. Here’s the deal. There’s a whole lot of garbage floating around; a whole lot ! Some are above the surface, some are below. What happens is they [...]
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
The city of Seattle is one of the most active cities in the US and in the world in what concerns protecting the environment. They encourage hybrids, green fuels, fight agains bottled water and now, there is an issue the people of Seattle have been given the chance to vote for. In another idea started [...]
Some photos of the amazing sun halo hovering over NYC
Record level atmospheric CO2. Reaches 400 ppm for the first time in 3 million years
Your brain detects grammar errors even when you’re not aware of them
First mathematical proof that prime numbers come in infinite pairs
CT scan images caterpillar to butterfly metamorphosis in 3-D
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