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| Toxic: Garbage Island - Part 1 |
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SEE MORE:
http://www.vbs.tv/shows/toxic/garbage-island/
For years we've been reading about a patch of
garbage the size of Texas floating in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean, ingeniously
dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Basically, any trash that gets dumped in the
water rides the currents to this one spot and
joins an ever-increasing flotilla of crap.
For all the breathless accounts of the mess
and its impact on the area's sealife,
however, no one seemed to have a picture of
the buildup.
In order to sate our own curiosity, VBS
joined the crew of a research vessel studying
the trash and sailed out into one of the most
remote spots of open water in the world, the
North Pacific Gyre, in search of this
mythical garbage island. What we discovered
once we got there was an ecological disaster
beyond any of our expectations and possibly
the single worst thing human beings have done
to the planet and ourselves. Hope you're into
cancer and sex-reversal!
www.VBS.tv
Tags : vbs.tv environmental news video ocean pollution garbage isaland great pacific patch north gyre |
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Affichage : 57909
Durée : 396 s |
| Patagonia Oceans As Wilderness- Synthetic Seas |
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As part of our Oceans as Wilderness campaign,
we present one of four video shorts from
"Research Clips" a DVD by the Algalita Marine
Research Foundation. "Synthetic Sea"
investigates the effects of plastic pollution
in our oceans.
Please visit www.algalita.org for more
information or to order the full DVD.
Visit www.patagonia.com to learn more about
Oceans as Wilderness
Tags : Algalita Marine Research Foundation Patagonia Video パタゴニア |
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Affichage : 74760
Durée : 418 s |
| North Pacific Gyre |
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The center of the North Pacific Gyre is a
relatively stationary region of the Pacific
Ocean (the area it occupies is often referred
to as the horse latitudes). The circular
rotation around it draws waste material in
and has led to the accumulation of flotsam
and other debris. While historically this
debris has biodegraded, the gyre is now
accumulating vast quantities of plastic and
marine debris. Rather than biodegrading,
plastic photodegrades, disintegrating in the
ocean into smaller and smaller pieces. These
pieces, still polymers, eventually become
individual molecules, which are still not
easily digested.[1] Some plastics
photodegrade into other pollutants.
The gyre is discussed in Alan Weisman's The
World Without Us as an example of the
near-indestructibility of discarded plastic.
Tags : North Pacific Gyre Garbage environment earth okinawa japan ecology |
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Affichage : 4472
Durée : 171 s |
| The Gyre Falcons - Twitch of the Death Nerve |
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The Gyre Falcons play "Twitch of the Death
Nerve" in this documentary clip from the
movie "The Miskatonic Acid Test". The Gyre
Falcons were one of the quintessential groups
representing the late '60's "Arkham Sound",
and their single, "Twitch of the Death Nerve"
was a fiery blast of antiwar fury. Sadly, the
group disbanded after the event documented in
"The Miskatonic Acid Test" (forthcoming from
American Entropy Productions).
Tags : psychedelic 60s lovecraft cthulhu lsd horror antiwar hippie acid |
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Affichage : 1426
Durée : 255 s |
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