Topic: Miriam Goldstein

Pacific Ocean garbage patch worries researchers

AP News - 901 days ago
Giant garbage patch in Pacific Ocean's possible effect on marine life worries researchersA tawny stuffed puppy bobs in cold sea water, his four stiff legs tangled in the green net of some nameless fisherman.It's one of the bigger pieces ...

Plastics patch found across 1,700 miles of Pacific

Reuters Environmental Online Report - 901 days ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ocean scientists recently back from a voyage to the " vast majority of things we saw were small, about the size of your thumbnail or smaller," Miriam Goldstein, the expedition's chief scientist, told reporters at the Scripps Institution of ...