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🕸️ Ghost Nets, Silent Drifters: How Lost Fishing Gear Haunts the Ocean
From section: Frequently Asked Questions+Are ghost nets the same as ghost gear? Ghost nets are one type of ghost gear. The broader term ghost gear can include lost or abandoned nets, lines, ropes, traps, pots, floats, and other fishing equipment that remains in the marine environment.
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🔄 Tides of Plastic: Microplastic Pollution in the Oceans and Its Journey Back to Us
From section: 💡 Did You Know?… Related studies of plastic-decomposing organisms show that living systems can interact with plastic in complex ways, although breakdown is often slow, partial, and highly dependent on material and environment.
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🌊 Microplastics in the Ocean: How Tiny Fragments Travel
From section: Why movement becomes exposureWithin the broader Environment & Sustainability collection, microplastics belong to a larger pattern of pollution, waste movement, and material systems that do not end at the point of disposal.
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From Rainforest Floor to Landfill Core: How Nature's Decomposers Are Learning to Eat Our Plastic Problem 🍄
In 2011, undergraduate students trudging through Ecuador's rainforest made an accidental discovery that would reshape our approach to plastic waste. Their equipment bag, supposedly sealed against moisture, had become lunch for an unexpected guest.
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🕸️ Ghost Nets: Silent Killers Threatening Our Oceans and Reefs
🌊 Beneath the calm surface of the ocean, a hidden danger can keep moving long after people lose sight of it: ghost nets. These abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing nets may drift through open water, settle on reefs, tangle with other debris, or remain suspended where marine…
