This endangered mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) was photographed by National Geographic Photographer Joel Sartore on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, in his ambitious project to document every species in captivity—inspiring people not just to care, but also to help protect these animals for future generations. Before drills disappear, like …

2024年10月31日 · All the floating plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch inspired National Geographic Emerging Explorer David de Rothschild and his team at Adventure Ecology to create a large catamaran made of plastic bottles: the Plastiki.

2025年1月22日 · In the middle of the northern Pacific Ocean, a huge collection of microscopic plastic particles forms what is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Air and water currents carry pollution.

2023年10月19日 · On Henderson Island, an uninhabited atoll in the Pitcairn Group isolated halfway between Chile and New Zealand, scientists found plastic items from Russia, the United States, Europe, South America, Japan, and China. They were carried to the South Pacific by the South Pacific gyre, a circular ocean current. Microplastics

2023年11月27日 · The Mariana Trench —the deepest point in the ocean—extends nearly 10,975 meters (36,000 feet) down in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean. But if you thought the trench could escape the global onslaught of plastics pollution, you would be wrong.

2024年9月18日 · The Pacific Garbage Patch is one example of such a collection, with plastics and micro plastics floating on and below the surface of swirling ocean currents between California and Hawaii in an area of about 1.6 million square kilometers (617,763 square …

2024年1月22日 · In small groups, explore the impact of ocean plastics on coral reef species by having students research the impact of “ghost nets” on sea turtles, the ingestion of plastic by …

The numbers are staggering: There are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the ocean. Of that mass, 269,000 tons float on the surface, while some four billion plastic microfibers per square kilometer litter the deep sea.

Henderson Island’s Plastic Plastic Pollution What if plastic had been invented a long time ago? What if the pilgrims on the Mayflower had snacks wrapped in plastic? Their trash would still be around today.Plastic became popular in the 1950s. Since then, we’ve made 9.2 billion tons of plastic. A lot of that plastic has become waste. A lot of ...

2023年11月27日 · A study published last March found these materials made up most of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This Texas-size collection of junk is floating between Hawaii and California. The ocean clearly contains much more plastic than a single bag in the Mariana Trench. However, this one piece of plastic is not just a wind-flung metaphor for carelessness.