Marine plastic pollution
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Marine plastic pollution is a type of marine pollution by plastics ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic
An exhibit at the Mote Marine Laboratory that displays plastic bags in the ocean that look similar to jellyfish
Atlantic Ocean marine plastic on a beach in Tenerife
Microplastics among sand and glass spheres in sediment from the Rhine. The white bar represents 1 mm.
Polystyrene foam beads on an Irish beach
Ocean
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The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth. The ocean is conventionally divided into large bodies of water, which are also referred to as oceans, and are themselves m
Pacific Ocean, largest part of Earth and its ocean, seen from space in 2023
Lighthouse at the coast of Ocean County, New Jersey, U.S., facing the Atlantic Ocean at sunrise
The ocean is a major driver of Earth's water cycle.
High tide and low tide in the Bay of Fundy, Canada