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Eight million metric tons of plastic wind up each year in the oceans, harming marine life and entering the food chain. A film crew traveled the globe to document the rubbish, producing a new documentary film called A Plastic Ocean that looks at the p

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UN: Plastic Accounts for $13B in Damage to Marine Habitat As World Cup play continues across Brazil, the country is gearing up to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Among the concerns is that the sailing venue near Rio de Janeiro is too polluted to

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World Oceans Day 2018 On June 8th, much of the world observes United Nations World Oceans Day. The idea is to remind people how important the world's oceans are to all life on Earth, to celebrate their beauty, and to bring attention to the impact hum

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Greenpeace: Plastic, Chemical Pollution Widespread in Antarctica The non-governmental environmental group Greenpeace reports that plastic and chemical pollution is often found in snow and seawater collected by researchers in Antarctica. Greenpeace sa

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Kenya Becomes Latest Country to Ban Plastic Bags Kenya has joined the growing list of countries to ban plastic bags. A new Kenyan law bars the production, sale and even use of polythene plastic bags. People caught breaking the law may be fined up to

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Huge Device Aims to Capture Pacific Oceans Plastic Garbage Engineers have launched a huge garbage collection device to gather plastic material floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. The plastic makes up what is called the Great

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Plastic waste is swamping Asia's landfills, and some ends up at sea, harming marine life. Now, environmentalists and entrepreneurs are attempting to recycle plastic back to its main component - oil. In the northern Pacific Ocean, scientists say a la

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Bacteria Thrive on Ocean Plastic Debris It takes about six weeks for a plastic bag or bottle to ride the surface currents from the U.S. East Coast to the Sargasso Sea, in the center of the North Atlantic. The area is a gyre, essentially a big whirlpo

VOA标准英语2014--Big Apple Weighs Fees on Single-use Plastic Bags

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Rebecca Hosking makes documentary films. Recently, she worked on a documentary film for the BBC about the effect of plastics in the marine environment. She was shocked by what she saw as she was making the documentary. She found many sorts of sea cre

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Teenage Sisters Pushed Bali To Say 'Bye-Bye' To Plastic Bags

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We've talked a lot on this program about plastic in the oceans. China is the biggest culprit when it comes to marine plastic, but Indonesia is second. Two young women on Bali are on a mission to change that beginning with plastic