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Emo

преди 16 години

Щатът Тексас е 678,051 km² !Умножете го по 2 и получавате 1356,102km².Не ви ли се струва нереално ?

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edin ot ostanlite

преди 16 години

nqkoi ako nameri koordinati v GoogleEarth-a da dade!az ne nanemih ni6to moje bi neudobnite ne6ta ne gi snimat!2 puti kolkoto Teksas tova naistina e dosta smu6tava6to!

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stefan

преди 16 години

Абе място си има, според maps.google ама тва "an, then make its way to the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists" просто не мога да го повярвам, по-скоро буди само съмнения за истиността на цялата статия.

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Martin

преди 16 години

Не знам как ги мерят тия острови, но просто няма място за 2 Тексаса между Хавай и Калифорния... ако има, то няма да остане много вода.. погледнете картата, а и сателитните снимки на района...

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рафи

преди 16 години

А вярно, че този *** е паднал от космоса и не е на никой.Даже Великия Американски Народ няма нищо общо с него!...

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Source

преди 16 години

At the start of the Academy Award-winning movie "American Beauty," a character videotapes a plastic grocery bag as it drifts into the air, an event he casts as a symbol of life's unpredictable currents, and declares the romantic moment as a "most beautiful thing."To the eyes of an oceanographer, the image is pure catastrophe.In reality, the rogue bag would float into a sewer, follow the storm drain to the ocean, then make its way to the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists.The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii.Marcus Eriksen, director of research and education at the Algalita Marine Research Foundation in Long Beach, said his group has been monitoring the Garbage Patch for 10 years."With the winds blowing in and the currents in the gyre going circular, it's the perfect environment for trapping," Eriksen said. "There's nothing we can do about it now, except do no more harm."The patch has been growing, along with ocean debris worldwide, tenfold every decade since the 1950s, said Chris Parry, public education program manager with the California Coastal Commission in San Francisco.Ocean current patterns may keep the flotsam stashed in a part of the world few will ever see, but the majority of its content is generated onshore, according to a report from Greenpeace last year titled "Plastic Debris in the World's Oceans."The report found that 80 percent of the oceans' litter originated on land. While ships drop the occasional load of shoes or hockey gloves into the waters (sometimes on purpose and illegally), the vast majority of sea garbage begins its journey as onshore trash.That's what makes a potentially toxic swamp like the Garbage Patch entirely preventable, Parry said."At this point, cleaning it up isn't an option," Parry said. "It's just going to get bigger as our reliance on plastics continues. ... The long-term solution is to stop producing as much plastic products at home and change our consumption habits."Parry said using canvas bags to cart groceries instead of using plastic bags is a good first step; buying foods that aren't wrapped in plastics is another.After the San Francisco Board of Supervisors banned the use of plastic grocery bags earlier this year with the problem of ocean debris in mind, a slew of state bills were written to limit bag production, said Sarah Christie, a legislative director with the California Coastal Commission.But many of the bills failed after meeting strong opposition from plastics industry lobbyists, she said.Meanwhile, the stew in the ocean continues to grow.The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is particularly d

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kum NEREALNIA/TA

преди 16 години

San Francisco Chronicle... ne vijdate li che sa napisali ot kude e statiata! Be hora, chetete pone onova napisanoto s cherno, a ne mejdu redovete!!!

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X

преди 16 години

площта на Тексас е два пъти колкото Германия. Ако този остров е два пъти колкото Тексас, то си е цял материк. Дайте го по- внимателно, име хора дето четат, не само снимките гледат:)

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lelleeeee

преди 16 години

dnes.bg ia ni kajete otkade ia vzehte taia statia, za da mojem da si ia prochetem na originalnia ezik i da razberem adjeba kakvo stava s ostrovcheto

2

преди 16 години

Брей остров два пъти по-голям от Тексас.Тия от нюза нещо не са добре; то тоя остро ще да е с размерите на Европа ; дажи по-голям. и да не можем да го открием в Тихия океан или на картата.И още да не станал собственост на някой.

1

преди 16 години

какви десетилетия, някои видове пластмаса се разлагат милиони години. поне сега вече знаем, че дълго след като ни няма, тук ще има паметник на нашето величие...