{"id":31254,"date":"2014-08-14T22:03:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/2014\/08\/14\/floating-plastic-islands-of-debris-in-pacific-cause-concern\/"},"modified":"2014-08-14T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T20:03:10","slug":"floating-plastic-islands-of-debris-in-pacific-cause-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/en\/nonresearch-en\/2014\/floating-plastic-islands-of-debris-in-pacific-cause-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"FLOATING PLASTIC ISLANDS OF DEBRIS IN PACIFIC CAUSE CONCERN"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/news\/floating-islands-of-plastic-in-pacific-cause-concern\/191105\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/abc7.com\/news\/floating-islands-of-plastic-in-pacific-cause-concern\/191105\/<\/a>\n\nFLOATING PLASTIC ISLANDS OF DEBRIS IN PACIFIC CAUSE CONCERN\n\nBy Rudabeh Shahbazi\n\nTuesday, July 15, 2014\n\nLONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Researchers released new images of islands\nof plastic debris floating in the Pacific, and fear the problem is growing.\n\nAlgalita Marine Research Institute scientists discovered the first\n\"Great Pacific Garbage Patch\" more than a decade ago. Back out to sea\nagain, they're not liking what they're seeing.\n\n\"They found a lot more plastic farther away from the area that's called\nthe 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' than they've ever seen. So they ran\nacross it sooner than they expected, and it was a lot of debris,\" said\nAlgalita Executive Director Marieta Francis.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/abc7.com\/news\/floating-islands-of-plastic-in-pacific-cause-concern\/191105\/ FLOATING PLASTIC ISLANDS OF DEBRIS IN PACIFIC CAUSE CONCERN By Rudabeh Shahbazi Tuesday, July 15, 2014 LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Researchers released new images of islands of plastic debris floating in the Pacific, and fear the problem is growing. Algalita Marine Research Institute scientists discovered the first &#8220;Great Pacific Garbage Patch&#8221; more than a decade ago. Back out to sea again, they&#8217;re not liking what they&#8217;re seeing. &#8220;They found a lot more plastic farther away from the area that&#8217;s called the &#8216;Great Pacific Garbage Patch&#8217; than they&#8217;ve ever seen. So they ran across it sooner than they expected, and it was a lot of debris,&#8221; said Algalita Executive Director Marieta Francis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504,3488],"tags":[1309],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FLOATING PLASTIC ISLANDS OF DEBRIS IN PACIFIC CAUSE CONCERN - One Earth - One Ocean e. 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