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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch May Be Changing The Color of The Ocean
There's a monster lurking in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, neither kraken nor Cthulhu, but a growing behemoth of humanity's creation.
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There's a monster lurking in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, neither kraken nor Cthulhu, but a growing behemoth of humanity's creation. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a vast, drifting accumulation of plastic trash, sprawling across an area roughly twice the size of Texas .
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