Articles by Chris Mooney
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Plastic within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is ‘Increasing Exponentially,’ Scientists Find
Chris Mooney – The Washington Post,
2 Apr 2018
22 Mar 2018 – Seventy-nine thousand tons of plastic debris, in the form of 1.8 trillion pieces, now occupy an area three times the size of France in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, a scientific team reported today. The amount of plastic found in this area, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is “increasing exponentially.”
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Chris Mooney – The Washington Post,
28 Mar 2016
22 Mar 2016 – An influential group of scientists led by James Hansen, the former NASA scientist often credited with having drawn the first major attention to climate change in 1988 congressional testimony, has published a dire climate study that suggests the impact of global warming will be quicker and more catastrophic than generally envisioned.
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