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Garbage Patch Team Netted Lots of Plastic
Voice of San Diego - Feb 8, 2010
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are surprised by the sheer amount of plastic they're uncovering in hundreds of samples they hauled back from the North Pacific Ocean last August. A team of graduate students sailed a thousand miles west of California to a rarely-traveled but much-hyped area called the North Pacific Gyre -- a continent-sized, slowly swirling stretch of water where oceanic currents have deposited tons of plastic trash.
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Blue Whales Croon a New Tune
NPR (Radio) - Feb 6, 2010
Blue whales are updating their playlist, according to new research on the huge mammals. John Hildebrand of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego studies whale sounds and says he's been hearing something new lately. "They've been shifting the frequency. They've been shifting the pitch to be lower each year. And that shift in pitch has resulted in a song that is now about 30 percent lower than it was in the 1960s," he says.
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