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- Message in a bottle : ocean dispatches from a seabird biologist / by Hogan, Holly(Biologist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the heart of the Labrador Current to the furthest reaches of our global oceans, Message in a Bottle conjures an exquisite diversity of marine life and warns of a central threat to its survival: ocean plastic. The dovekie is a stocky seabird the size of a child's heart that spends its winters on the coast of Newfoundland, thriving in one of the toughest climates on Earth. The polar bear is an apex predator, designed to persevere in the Arctic's extreme conditions. The North Atlantic right whale outweighs the humpback by more than twenty tons and feeds on enormous quantities of tiny plankton in northeastern waters before migrating south for the winter. In Message in a Bottle, wildlife biologist and writer Holly Hogan brings to extraordinary life the wonder and resilience of these creatures and many other birds, fish and marine mammals she has encountered in sea voyages from the Arctic to the Antarctic oceans. However, in her travels she has noticed a troubling pattern: the constant presence of plastic, in the form of adrift fishing gear ("ghost gear"), garbage and micro-plastics which form an invisible but pervasive smog in our oceans and threaten even the most seemingly resilient forms of sea life. Bringing together nature, science and adventure writing, Hogan shines a light on our plastic-addicted lifestyle and offers a compelling, eyewitness account of its devastating effects on the marine environment--70% of our planet. With lyrical prose and a reverential eye for the majesty and fragility of our natural world, Message in a Bottle is a clarion call to protect global oceans and the life they sustain, including our own."--- Subjects: Marine ecology.; Marine pollution; Marine pollution.; Plastic marine debris; Plastic marine debris.;
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- A plastic ocean [videorecording] / by Bittner, George,commentator.; Cutler, Miriam,composer.; Elliott, Mindy,screenwriter,editor of moving image work.; Fossi, Maria Cristina,commentator.; Galgani, François,commentator.; Gonsior, Michael,commentator.; Jobling, Susan,commentator.; Lavers, Jennifer,commentator.; Leeson, Craig,film director,screenwriter,commentator.; Leipzig, Adam,film producer.; Monteleone, Bonnie,commentator.; Pitts, Michael,director of photography.; Porter, Lindsay,commentator.; Ruxton, Jo,film producer.; Streeter, Tanya,1973-commentator.; Brainstorm Media,production company.; Passion River Films,film distributor.; Plastic Oceans Foundation,production company.;
Director of photography, Michael Pitts ; edited by Mindy Elliott ; original score written and produced by Miriam Cutler.Explorers: Craig Leeson, Tanya Streeter ; scientists, Lindsay Porter, Maria Cristina Fossi, Bonnie Monteleone, François Galgani, Jennifer Lavers, Michael Gonsior, Susan Jobling, George Bittner.An international team of adventurers, researchers, and Ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the surface our seemingly pristine ocean. The result will astound viewers, just as it did our adventurers, who captured never-before-seen images of marine life, plastic pollution, and its ultimate consequences for human health.E.DVD, widescreen ; stereo.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Environmental films.; Feature films.; Nonfiction films.; Science films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Marine pollution.; Plastic marine debris; Waste disposal in the ocean.;
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- Plastic soup : an atlas of ocean pollution / by Abbing, Michiel Roscam,author.;
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- Subjects: Plastic marine debris; Plastic scrap; Waste disposal in the ocean.; Marine pollution.;
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- An earth-bot's solution to plastic pollution / by Ayto, Russell.;
Plastic pollution is a big problem in Neo's room, and Grandpa wants him to clean up, but Neo is having too much fun playing video games, saving his planet from aliens. When a seal, a penguin, and a turtle ask Neo to help them clean up the plastic pollution in the ocean, Neo realizes that he can help to save the planet for real, by using less plastic.LSC- Subjects: Plastic marine debris; Plastics; Waste minimization; Orderliness;
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- Saving the oceans from plastic / by Hamby, Rachel,1970-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.RL: 3-5; IL: 4-7.LSC- Subjects: Plastic marine debris; Plastic scrap; Waste disposal in the ocean;
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- Junk raft : an ocean voyage and a rising tide of activism to fight plastic pollution / by Eriksen, Marcus,1967-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft" Over the past several years, the news media has brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"--the famous swirling gyre of plastic litter in the ocean--into the public consciousness. When Marcus Eriksen cofounded the 5 Gyres Institute with his wife, Anna, and set out to study marine pollution, they found that the reality is even more dire: instead of a stable mass of litter, they discovered that a "plastic smog" of microparticles permeates the world's oceans, defying simplistic clean-up efforts. What's more, these microplastics and their toxic chemistry have seeped into the food chain, threatening marine life and humans alike. Far from being a gloomy treatise on an environmental catastrophe, though, Junk Raft tells the exciting story of Eriksen's fight to raise awareness and solve the problem of plastic pollution, contributing to a fast-growing movement to stem the tide of trash. Eriksen writes of his voyage from Los Angeles to Hawaii aboard his homemade "junk raft," and along the way he recounts the successful efforts to fight corporate influence and demand that plastics producers take responsibility for a problem they've created. Eriksen provides concrete, actionable solutions and an empowering message: it's up to bold, brash, unapologetically activist "citizen scientists" to challenge the status quo for the sake of the planet"--- Subjects: Eriksen, Marcus, 1967-; Plastic marine debris; Microplastics; Marine pollution;
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- How to give up plastic : simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet / by McCallum, Will,author.;
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- Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Plastics; Plastic marine debris; Sustainable living.; Environmental protection; Waste minimization.;
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- Plastic, ahoy! : investigating the great Pacific garbage patch / by Newman, Patricia,1958-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46), Internet addresses and index.LSC- Subjects: Marine pollution; Marine pollution; Plastic marine debris; Plastic scrap; Waste disposal in the ocean;
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