Great Pacific Garbage Patch (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" in English language version.

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abc.net.au (Global: 139^th place; English: 108^th place)

"Environmentalists remove 40 tonnes of abandoned fishing nets from Great Pacific Garbage Patch". Australia: ABC News. 29 June 2019. Archived from the original on 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.

acs.org (Global: 1,248^th place; English: 1,104^th place)

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aneddoticamagazine.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

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bbc.com (Global: 20^th place; English: 30^th place)

Brassey, Dr Charlotte (16 July 2017). "A mission to the Pacific plastic patch". BBC News. Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
Adkins, Frankie (17 January 2024). "Visualising the Great Pacific Garbage Patch". BBC. Retrieved 6 July 2024.

biopianeta.it (Global: low place; English: low place)

Perrone, Francesca (1 October 2022). "Isola di Plastica più grande del mondo: dove si trova e come si è formata". Bio Pianeta (in Italian). Retrieved 3 March 2024.

cbc.ca (Global: 115^th place; English: 82^nd place)

"Pacific Ocean garbage mostly from home, not Japan tsunami". Canadian Broadcast News. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2019.

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"More than 63,000 pounds of trash removed from one of the biggest accumulations of ocean plastic in the world". CBS News. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2021.

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"Our progress so far..." TIDES. Ocean Conservancy. Archived from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.

creativecommons.org (Global: 1,010^th place; English: 612^th place)

Lebreton, Laurent; Royer, Sarah-Jeanne; Peytavin, Axel; Strietman, Wouter Jan; Smeding-Zuurendonk, Ingeborg; Egger, Matthias (1 September 2022). "Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre". Scientific Reports. 12 (1): 12666. Bibcode:2022NatSR..1212666L. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-16529-0. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 9436981. PMID 36050351. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Lebreton, Laurent; Royer, Sarah-Jeanne; Peytavin, Axel; Strietman, Wouter Jan; Smeding-Zuurendonk, Ingeborg; Egger, Matthias (1 September 2022). "Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre". Scientific Reports. 12 (1): 12666. Bibcode:2022NatSR..1212666L. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-16529-0. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 9436981. PMID 36050351. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Frias, J.; Nash, Roisin (2019). "Microplastics: Finding a consensus on the definition". Marine Pollution Bulletin. 138. Elsevier: 145–147. Bibcode:2019MarPB.138..145F. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.11.022. ISSN 0025-326X. PMID 30660255. S2CID 58550075. Lebreton, L.; Slat, B.; Ferrari, F.; Sainte-Rose, B.; Aitken, J.; Marthouse, R.; Hajbane, S.; Cunsolo, S.; Schwarz, A. (22 March 2018). "Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic". Scientific Reports. 8 (1): 4666. Bibcode:2018NatSR...8.4666L. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-22939-w. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5864935. PMID 29568057. S2CID 4093211.
Goldstein Miriam C.; Rosenberg Marci; Cheng Lanna (2012). "Increased oceanic microplastic debris enhances oviposition in an endemic pelagic insect". Biology Letters. 8 (5): 817–20. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0298. PMC 3440973. PMID 22573831.
Law, Kara Lavender; Narayan, Ramani; Andrady, Anthony; Perryman, Miriam; Siegler, Theodore R.; Wilcox, Chris; Geyer, Roland; Jambeck, Jenna R. (13 February 2015). "Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean". Science. 347 (6223): 768–71. Bibcode:2015Sci...347..768J. doi:10.1126/science.1260352. PMID 25678662. S2CID 206562155.
Law, Kara Lavender; Starr, Natalie; Siegler, Theodore R.; Jambeck, Jenna R.; Mallos, Nicholas J.; Leonard, George H. (30 October 2020). "The United States' contribution of plastic waste to land and ocean". Science Advances. 6 (44) eabd0288. Bibcode:2020SciA....6..288L. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abd0288. PMC 7608798. PMID 33127684.
Lebreton, Laurent; Royer, Sarah-Jeanne; Peytavin, Axel; Strietman, Wouter Jan; Smeding-Zuurendonk, Ingeborg; Egger, Matthias (1 September 2022). "Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre". Scientific Reports. 12 (1): 12666. Bibcode:2022NatSR..1212666L. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-16529-0. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 9436981. PMID 36050351.
For this and what follows, see Karl, David M. (May–June 1999). "A Sea of Change: Biogeochemical Variability in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre". Ecosystems. 2 (3): 181–214. doi:10.1007/s100219900068. S2CID 46309501. For gyres generally, see Sverdrup HU, Johnson MW, Fleming RH (1946). The oceans, their physics, chemistry, and general biology. New York: Prentice-Hall.
Eriksen, Marcus; Lebreton, Laurent C. M.; Carson, Henry S.; Thiel, Martin; Moore, Charles J.; Borerro, Jose C.; Galgani, Francois; Ryan, Peter G.; Reisser, Julia (10 December 2014). "Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea". PLOS ONE. 9 (12). e111913. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9k1913E. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111913. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4262196. PMID 25494041.
Haram, Linsey E.; Carlton, James T.; Centurioni, Luca; Crowley, Mary; Hafner, Jan; Maximenko, Nikolai; Murray, Cathryn Clarke; Shcherbina, Andrey Y.; Hormann, Verena; Wright, Cynthia; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2 December 2021). "Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas". Nature Communications. 12 (1): 6885. Bibcode:2021NatCo..12.6885H. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27188-6. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 8639729. PMID 34857744.
Ryan, P. G.; Moore, C. J.; Van Franeker, J. A.; Moloney, C. L. (2009). "Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 364 (1526): 1999–2012. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0207. JSTOR 40485978. PMC 2873010. PMID 19528052.
Young, Lindsay C.; Vanderlip, Cynthia; Duffy, David C.; Afanasyev, Vsevolod; Shaffer, Scott A. (2009). Ropert-Coudert, Yan (ed.). "Bringing Home the Trash: Do Colony-Based Differences in Foraging Distribution Lead to Increased Plastic Ingestion in Laysan Albatrosses?". PLOS ONE. 4 (10) e7623. Bibcode:2009PLoSO...4.7623Y. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007623. PMC 2762601. PMID 19862322.
Moore, C.J; Moore, S.L; Leecaster, M.K; Weisberg, S.B (2001). "A Comparison of Plastic and Plankton in the North Pacific Central Gyre". Marine Pollution Bulletin. 42 (12): 1297–300. Bibcode:2001MarPB..42.1297M. doi:10.1016/S0025-326X(01)00114-X. PMID 11827116.
Goldstein, M. C.; Rosenberg, M.; Cheng, L. (2012). "Increased oceanic microplastic debris enhances oviposition in an endemic pelagic insect". Biology Letters. 8 (5): 817–20. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0298. PMC 3440973. PMID 22573831.
Yin, Huang; Cheng, Chang (2010). "Monitoring Methods Study on the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch". 2010 International Conference on Management and Service Science. pp. 1–4. doi:10.1109/icmss.2010.5577101. ISBN 978-1-4244-5325-2.
Yu, Xinxin (August 2011). "The Solution to the "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch"". 2011 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering. Vol. 14. pp. 405–412. doi:10.1109/CSE.2011.76. ISBN 978-1-4577-0974-6.

earthday.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

"500,000 Volunteers Take Part in Earth Day 2019 Cleanup". Earth Day Network. 26 April 2019. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.

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Olivia Rosane (12 September 2018). "Cleanup Day Is Saturday Around the World: Here's How to Help". EcoWatch. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.

engadget.com (Global: 466^th place; English: 349^th place)

Dent, Steve (11 September 2018). "A project to remove 88,000 tons of plastic from the Pacific has begun". Engadget. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

epa.gov (Global: 882^nd place; English: 600^th place)

"Marine Debris in the North Pacific: A Summary of Existing Information and Identification of Data Gaps" (PDF). US Environmental Protection Agency. November 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2016.

fastcompany.com (Global: 1,040^th place; English: 623^rd place)

Schwartz, Ariel (19 November 2010). "This Is What It's Like to Sail in the Pacific Trash Vortex". Fast Company. Archived from the original on 6 September 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.

forbes.com (Global: 54^th place; English: 48^th place)

Hannah Leung (21 April 2018). "Five Asian Countries Dump More Plastic into Oceans Than Anyone Else Combined: How You Can Help". Forbes. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2019. China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam are dumping more plastic into oceans than the rest of the world combined, according to a 2017 report by Ocean Conservancy

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Abby Lee Hood (1 May 2022). "Hooray! The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Become a Thriving Ecosystem, Scientists Say". Futurism.

harvard.edu (Global: 18^th place; English: 17^th place)

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Lebreton, Laurent; Royer, Sarah-Jeanne; Peytavin, Axel; Strietman, Wouter Jan; Smeding-Zuurendonk, Ingeborg; Egger, Matthias (1 September 2022). "Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre". Scientific Reports. 12 (1): 12666. Bibcode:2022NatSR..1212666L. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-16529-0. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 9436981. PMID 36050351. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Frias, J.; Nash, Roisin (2019). "Microplastics: Finding a consensus on the definition". Marine Pollution Bulletin. 138. Elsevier: 145–147. Bibcode:2019MarPB.138..145F. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.11.022. ISSN 0025-326X. PMID 30660255. S2CID 58550075. Lebreton, L.; Slat, B.; Ferrari, F.; Sainte-Rose, B.; Aitken, J.; Marthouse, R.; Hajbane, S.; Cunsolo, S.; Schwarz, A. (22 March 2018). "Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic". Scientific Reports. 8 (1): 4666. Bibcode:2018NatSR...8.4666L. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-22939-w. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5864935. PMID 29568057. S2CID 4093211.
Law, Kara Lavender; Narayan, Ramani; Andrady, Anthony; Perryman, Miriam; Siegler, Theodore R.; Wilcox, Chris; Geyer, Roland; Jambeck, Jenna R. (13 February 2015). "Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean". Science. 347 (6223): 768–71. Bibcode:2015Sci...347..768J. doi:10.1126/science.1260352. PMID 25678662. S2CID 206562155.
Law, Kara Lavender; Starr, Natalie; Siegler, Theodore R.; Jambeck, Jenna R.; Mallos, Nicholas J.; Leonard, George H. (30 October 2020). "The United States' contribution of plastic waste to land and ocean". Science Advances. 6 (44) eabd0288. Bibcode:2020SciA....6..288L. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abd0288. PMC 7608798. PMID 33127684.
Lebreton, Laurent; Royer, Sarah-Jeanne; Peytavin, Axel; Strietman, Wouter Jan; Smeding-Zuurendonk, Ingeborg; Egger, Matthias (1 September 2022). "Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre". Scientific Reports. 12 (1): 12666. Bibcode:2022NatSR..1212666L. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-16529-0. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 9436981. PMID 36050351.
Eriksen, Marcus; Lebreton, Laurent C. M.; Carson, Henry S.; Thiel, Martin; Moore, Charles J.; Borerro, Jose C.; Galgani, Francois; Ryan, Peter G.; Reisser, Julia (10 December 2014). "Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea". PLOS ONE. 9 (12). e111913. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9k1913E. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111913. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4262196. PMID 25494041.
Haram, Linsey E.; Carlton, James T.; Centurioni, Luca; Crowley, Mary; Hafner, Jan; Maximenko, Nikolai; Murray, Cathryn Clarke; Shcherbina, Andrey Y.; Hormann, Verena; Wright, Cynthia; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2 December 2021). "Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas". Nature Communications. 12 (1): 6885. Bibcode:2021NatCo..12.6885H. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27188-6. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 8639729. PMID 34857744.
Young, Lindsay C.; Vanderlip, Cynthia; Duffy, David C.; Afanasyev, Vsevolod; Shaffer, Scott A. (2009). Ropert-Coudert, Yan (ed.). "Bringing Home the Trash: Do Colony-Based Differences in Foraging Distribution Lead to Increased Plastic Ingestion in Laysan Albatrosses?". PLOS ONE. 4 (10) e7623. Bibcode:2009PLoSO...4.7623Y. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007623. PMC 2762601. PMID 19862322.
Moore, C.J; Moore, S.L; Leecaster, M.K; Weisberg, S.B (2001). "A Comparison of Plastic and Plankton in the North Pacific Central Gyre". Marine Pollution Bulletin. 42 (12): 1297–300. Bibcode:2001MarPB..42.1297M. doi:10.1016/S0025-326X(01)00114-X. PMID 11827116.

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Ryan, P. G.; Moore, C. J.; Van Franeker, J. A.; Moloney, C. L. (2009). "Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 364 (1526): 1999–2012. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0207. JSTOR 40485978. PMC 2873010. PMID 19528052.

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Lebreton, Laurent; Royer, Sarah-Jeanne; Peytavin, Axel; Strietman, Wouter Jan; Smeding-Zuurendonk, Ingeborg; Egger, Matthias (1 September 2022). "Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre". Scientific Reports. 12 (1): 12666. Bibcode:2022NatSR..1212666L. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-16529-0. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 9436981. PMID 36050351. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Frias, J.; Nash, Roisin (2019). "Microplastics: Finding a consensus on the definition". Marine Pollution Bulletin. 138. Elsevier: 145–147. Bibcode:2019MarPB.138..145F. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.11.022. ISSN 0025-326X. PMID 30660255. S2CID 58550075. Lebreton, L.; Slat, B.; Ferrari, F.; Sainte-Rose, B.; Aitken, J.; Marthouse, R.; Hajbane, S.; Cunsolo, S.; Schwarz, A. (22 March 2018). "Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic". Scientific Reports. 8 (1): 4666. Bibcode:2018NatSR...8.4666L. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-22939-w. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5864935. PMID 29568057. S2CID 4093211.
Goldstein Miriam C.; Rosenberg Marci; Cheng Lanna (2012). "Increased oceanic microplastic debris enhances oviposition in an endemic pelagic insect". Biology Letters. 8 (5): 817–20. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0298. PMC 3440973. PMID 22573831.
Law, Kara Lavender; Narayan, Ramani; Andrady, Anthony; Perryman, Miriam; Siegler, Theodore R.; Wilcox, Chris; Geyer, Roland; Jambeck, Jenna R. (13 February 2015). "Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean". Science. 347 (6223): 768–71. Bibcode:2015Sci...347..768J. doi:10.1126/science.1260352. PMID 25678662. S2CID 206562155.
Law, Kara Lavender; Starr, Natalie; Siegler, Theodore R.; Jambeck, Jenna R.; Mallos, Nicholas J.; Leonard, George H. (30 October 2020). "The United States' contribution of plastic waste to land and ocean". Science Advances. 6 (44) eabd0288. Bibcode:2020SciA....6..288L. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abd0288. PMC 7608798. PMID 33127684.
Lebreton, Laurent; Royer, Sarah-Jeanne; Peytavin, Axel; Strietman, Wouter Jan; Smeding-Zuurendonk, Ingeborg; Egger, Matthias (1 September 2022). "Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre". Scientific Reports. 12 (1): 12666. Bibcode:2022NatSR..1212666L. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-16529-0. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 9436981. PMID 36050351.
Eriksen, Marcus; Lebreton, Laurent C. M.; Carson, Henry S.; Thiel, Martin; Moore, Charles J.; Borerro, Jose C.; Galgani, Francois; Ryan, Peter G.; Reisser, Julia (10 December 2014). "Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea". PLOS ONE. 9 (12). e111913. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9k1913E. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111913. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4262196. PMID 25494041.
Haram, Linsey E.; Carlton, James T.; Centurioni, Luca; Crowley, Mary; Hafner, Jan; Maximenko, Nikolai; Murray, Cathryn Clarke; Shcherbina, Andrey Y.; Hormann, Verena; Wright, Cynthia; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2 December 2021). "Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas". Nature Communications. 12 (1): 6885. Bibcode:2021NatCo..12.6885H. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27188-6. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 8639729. PMID 34857744.
Ryan, P. G.; Moore, C. J.; Van Franeker, J. A.; Moloney, C. L. (2009). "Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 364 (1526): 1999–2012. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0207. JSTOR 40485978. PMC 2873010. PMID 19528052.
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