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Scientists study 'garbage patch' in Pacific Ocean

It is a problem of massive plastic proportions -- a giant floating debris field, composed mostly of bits and pieces of plastic, in the northwest Pacific Ocean, about a thousand miles off the coast of California.

Ocean trash problem 'far from being solved,' U.N. says

The world's oceans are full of trash, causing "tremendous" negative impacts on coastal life and ecology, according to a U.N. report released Monday.

Time.com: Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs?

Two new studies throw some doubt into the conventional wisdom of what the Earth was like when dinosaurs roamed it

Robot goes fishing for signs of global warming

This month, a slow-swimming robot known as Spray will attempt to glide roughly 2,484 nautical miles across the Atlantic, from the southern tip of Greenland to the coast of Spain.

The science debate behind climate change

Is global warming really a threat?

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