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The vast majority of the plastic flotsam and jetsam in the North Pacific subtropical gyre (the North Pacific Garbage Patch) consists of discarded fishing gear.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16529-0

Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre - Scientific Reports
The subtropical oceanic gyre in the North Pacific Ocean is currently covered with tens of thousands of tonnes of floating plastic debris, dispersed over millions of square kilometres. A large fraction is composed of fishing nets and ropes while the rest is mostly composed of hard plastic objects and fragments, sometimes carrying evidence on their origin. In 2019, an oceanographic mission conducted in the area, retrieved over 6000 hard plastic debris items > 5 cm. The debris was later sorte…

Watching Trump and Musk turn off the NOAA data centres, threatening irreplaceable archives of weather and climate data and analyses. Remembering when Stephen Harper’s government shut down a bunch of government libraries and archives, including literally throwing irreplaceable records in the trash.

The Harper Government Has Trashed and Destroyed Environmental Books and Documents
In the first few days of 2014, scientists, journalists, and environmentalists were horrified to discover that the Harper government had begun a process to close seven of the 11 of Canada's world-renowned Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries...

Response to comment on Mutualism weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
Camille Delavaux, Thomas Crowther, James Bever, Evan Gora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21006

Response to comment on Mutualism weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
In our original paper (Delavaux et al. 2024; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07110-y), we find that the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) in plant species richness is reduced on oceanic islands worldwide. Moreover, we find that plants that associate with mutualists, including pollinators, AM fungi, and N-fixing bacteria, disproportionately contribute to this reduction. To make this assertion, we fit models of continental diversity to absolute latitude and compared mainland diversi…

On the concentration distribution in turbulent thermals
Ludovic Huguet, Victor Lherm, Renaud Deguen, Joris Heyman, Tanguy Le Borgne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21707

On the concentration distribution in turbulent thermals
Turbulent thermals emerge in a wide variety of geophysical and industrial flows, such as atmospheric cumulus convection and pollutant dispersal in oceans and lakes. They form when a volume of buoyant fluid, arising from thermal or compositional density differences, is instantly released from a source. As they rise or sink, heat and mass transfers are likely to occur with the surrounding environment, spanning multiple scales from macroscopic entrainment of ambient fluid to microscopic diffusive …