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EPISODE · May 1, 2019

Charting the garbage patches of the sea

from Science and Engineering

Just how much plastic is there floating around in our oceans? Dr Erik van Sebille from UNSW's Climate Change Research Centre has completed a study of ocean "garbage patches", and has found that in some regions the amount of plastic outweighs that of marine life.MORE INFO:http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/4/044040UNSW Climate Change Research Centre:http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/4/044040Sound effects provided byfreeSFXhttp://www.freesfx.co.uk

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