This is Curtis Cove, in Biddeford, Maine, a newly conserved & protected habitat, part of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. August 3, 2012, low tide Curtis Cove lies at the end of a long, winding, dead-end road past private estates and private beaches...
Ever notice that we’ve got a thing for round numbers? We like our data neat and tidy.The world of ocean pollution and litter prevention is filled with nice round numbers.
Recent weeks have seen a spate of news articles (three examples here, here, and here) claiming that wreckage from the March 2011 Japanese tsunami has started arriving on the west coast of North America...
73.1% of all facts are made up.I made that up.Which, it seems, puts me in fairly good company. I study marine plastic pollution, it’s my thing. I’ve been at it for a year and a half now...
Most people now know of the Great Garbage Patch, the plastic soup swirling in the deep Pacific. "Plastic sand" on Kamilo Beach, Hawaii. Dead albatross on Midway Atoll, their bellies filled with plastic waste...
