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Animals are migrating to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Animals are migrating to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The oceanic soup of plastic fragments is becoming a new kind of ecosystem.
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Horror of the high seas comes in rogue waves or the steady rise of storm surges

Scientists at the University of Southampton have shown that such waves are growing in size at a rate of about 1 per cent a year, but little is known about whether these destructive forces will become more frequent in future.

Will the race for electric vehicles endanger the Earth's most sensitive ecosystem?
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Will the race for electric vehicles endanger the Earth's most sensitive ecosystem?

Materials needed to make the batteries for electric cars and other clean technology is driving interest in deep-seabed mining, and scientists fear the cost to the ocean will be steep.
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