Magellan of Garbage Garbage patch discoverer, Charles Moore MATT CRAMER Algalita Marine Research Foundation, www.algalita.org
Trashed: For decades, circulating ocean currents have picked up refuse from shorelines and boats and corralled it in two vast lobes of decaying, soupy material dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... George Retseck, SOURCES: GREENPEACE, CHARLES MOORE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
Drill, baby, drill: Proponents say opening the U.S. outer continental shelf to drilling would cut dependence on foreign oil. SOURCE: U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
Disappearing: One in four mammals is now threatened with extinction from deforestation, hunting and climate change. INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE
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Brown Bagging It: 1.14 million brown paper bags are used in the U.S. every hour Source: The Art Project "Running The Numbers," Research and Photography by Chris Jordan
