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Trash vortex : how plastic pollution is choking the world's oceans / by Danielle Smith-Liera ; content advisor, Michael Wert, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Marquette University.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Captured history. Science.Publisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint, [2018]Description: 64 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780756557454
  • 0756557453
  • 9780756557492
  • 0756557496
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
A surprise at sea -- Shaping a modern life -- Risky ocean journeys -- New cycles.
Summary: Millions of tons of plastic slip into oceans every year. Some floats and travels slowly with the currents, endangering the health of marine animals. The rest is hardly visible but is far more dangerous. Tiny bits of plastic sprinkle the ocean's surface or mix into the sandy seafloor and beaches. It ends up inside birds, fish, and other animals, harming them-and ultimately humans. Experts struggle with fear and hope as they work to stop the flood of plastic threatening living organisms across the globe.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 363.738 S654 Available 33111009279866
Total holds: 0

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Millions of tons of plastic slip into oceans every year. Some floats and travels slowly with the currents, endangering the health of marine animals. The rest is hardly visible but is far more dangerous. Tiny bits of plastic sprinkle the ocean's surface or mix into the sandy seafloor and beaches. It ends up inside birds, fish, and other animals, harming them-and ultimately humans. Experts struggle with fear and hope as they work to stop the flood of plastic threatening living organisms across the globe.

Age 10-14.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A surprise at sea -- Shaping a modern life -- Risky ocean journeys -- New cycles.

Millions of tons of plastic slip into oceans every year. Some floats and travels slowly with the currents, endangering the health of marine animals. The rest is hardly visible but is far more dangerous. Tiny bits of plastic sprinkle the ocean's surface or mix into the sandy seafloor and beaches. It ends up inside birds, fish, and other animals, harming them-and ultimately humans. Experts struggle with fear and hope as they work to stop the flood of plastic threatening living organisms across the globe.

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