Great Pacific Garbage Patch Becomes an Ocean Habitat for Coastal Species

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By Olivia RosaneDec 2, 2021, 2:00 pm296 pts
The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, or the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” stretches for more than 610,000 square miles between California and Hawai’i. The gyre hosts around 79,000 metric tons of microplastics, nets, buoys and bottles. And, in a surprising turn, coastal life. Scientists writing in Nature…

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