Sentences with phrase «gyres project»

After experiencing the impact of our consumer society on our environment first - hand during my recent sailing trip with the 5 Gyres project, visiting miles of ocean trash, the question hit me: Why can't we get away from our ridiculous consumption of dispos

It's our fifth day on the Sea Dragon, the sailboat that's taking a crew of 13 people on an expedition with the 5 Gyres project to find out if the South Pacific presents the same plastic pollution found in the North Pacific, North Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South Atlantic.

5 Gyres Project Switches Focus from Great Pacific Garbage Patch to Other 4 Gyres (Video) How Much Ocean - Bound Plastic Are You Responsible For?

Not exact matches

To figure out how much refuse is floating in those garbage patches, four ships of the Malaspina expedition, a global research project studying the oceans, fished for plastic across all five major ocean gyres in 2010 and 2011.

The 5 Gyres Institute worked with Swift Engineering, STEAMtank, and Packaging 2.0 to develop and execute the project.

Nine leading non-profit conservation organizations — 5 Gyres Institute, Algalita, Californians Against Waste, Clean Production Action, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Responsible Purchasing Network, The Story of Stuff Project, Surfrider Foundation, and UPSTREAM Policy — joined together to produce the Plastics BAN (Better Alternatives Now) List, a series of reports that identify the world's most dangerous plastics in order to better protect our oceans and environment.

Andrey Proshutinsky, Sarah Zimmermann, Tim Kane, and Luc Rainville of the 2007 Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project cruise on the Louis St. Laurent for dropping XCPs in the Beaufort Sea.

On the heels of the shale gas rush that's swept the U.S. for the past decade, another wave of fossil fuel - based projects is coming — a plastic and petrochemical manufacturing rush that environmentalists warn could make smog worse in communities already breathing air pollution from fracking, sicken workers, and expand the plastic trash gyres in the world's oceans.

So in collaboration with 5 Gyres, he's measuring the levels of chlorophyll in the water in the same areas that the project is measuring presence of plastic to see if there's a correlation.

A contraction by 11 % of the seasonally stratified sub-tropical gyre is also projected in both hemispheres by 2050 due to climate warming.

An expansion by 4.0 % (Northern Hemisphere) and 9.4 % (Southern), and of the sub-polar gyre biome by 16 % (Northern) and 7 % (Southern), has been projected for the permanently stratified sub-tropical gyre biome with its low productivity.