Great Pacific Garbage Patch: References & Edit History

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  • Patricia Bauer
    Pat Bauer graduated from Ripon College in 1977 with a double major in Spanish and Theatre. She spent most of the next 42 years working as a copy editor and editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: The Guardian - 'Great Pacific garbage patch' sprawling with far more debris than thought. Oct 29, 2026
Add new Web site: CBC Radio - The great Pacific garbage patch is crawling with coastal life. May 19, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Radio National Breakfast - Great Pacific Garbage Patch is much bigger than we thought. Apr 07, 2026
Add new Web site: NOAA - Marine Debris Program - Garbage Patches. Feb 26, 2026
Add new Web site: University of California - eScholarship - Plastic, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and International Misfires at a Cure (PDF). Nov 14, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic. Sep 27, 2025
Add new Web site: Scientific Reports - Evaluating the environmental impact of cleaning the North Pacific Garbage Patch. Aug 14, 2025
Add new Web site: NOAA Ocean Service - Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Apr 12, 2025
Add new Web site: PBS News - Great Pacific Garbage Patch weighs more than 43,000 cars and is much larger than we thought. Jan 17, 2025
Add new Web site: CNN World - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so huge and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it, scientists say. Dec 07, 2024
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at USU - Observing and Tracking the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Sep 26, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC - Visualising the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Aug 14, 2024
Media added. Aug 13, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - 'Great Pacific garbage patch' sprawling with far more debris than thought. Apr 08, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Colorado Boulder - Environmental Center - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Nov 17, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo - Synthetic Seas: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Aug 31, 2023
Add new Web site: Nature - Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic. Jun 23, 2023
Add new Web site: The Ocean Cleanup - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Jan 08, 2019
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Apr 16, 2018
New article added. Feb 07, 2018
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