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ONE MAN’S TRASH… A spotted gray trigger fish was just big enough to fit inside a caulking tube, and became highly protective of its tiny habitat, snapping at approaching fish. Mr. Moore and his research team removed the tube from the garbage patch in September and placed it in an aquarium for observation.  (Photo: Lindsey Hoshow / the New York Times)

BARREL ORGANISMS As organisms grow on the debris, barrels like this one may sink and then resurface after sloughing off the heavy barnacles. Scientists say this “yo-yo” effect makes it difficult to quantify the amount of trash in the Pacific.  (Photo: Lindsey Hoshow / the New York Times)

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“Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patch, an area of widely dispersed trash that doubles in size every decade and is now believed to be roughly twice the size of Texas.”

Ugh.  Click through to read the whole article, “Researchers Explore Growing Ocean Garbage Patches,” at the New York Times.

Sadly, we only have our polluting selves to blame.

(Photo: Marion Aguilera / AP via the New York Times)

I think I just found the environmental issue I need for my final paper in Enviro Science class.

Al Gore talked about “the Pacific Gyre” on a recent The Daily Show. At first, I thought it was one whole mass of garbage the size of Texas; the Times’s description makes more sense.  Sad either way.

Heh.  But more like a sad “heh.”  Perhaps more like a “Sigh.”

“Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patch, an area of widely dispersed trash that doubles in size every decade and is now believed to be roughly twice the size of Texas.”

Ugh.  Click through to read the whole article, “Researchers Explore Growing Ocean Garbage Patches,” at the New York Times.

Sadly, we only have our polluting selves to blame.

(Photo: Marion Aguilera / AP via the New York Times)

One of my favoritest things, ever: a copy of a King Of Queens working script, signed by Kevin James (one of my heroes, FTH), Leah Remini, Jerry Stiller and Victor Williams.

BOOM TIMES Nuclear missiles prepared for destruction at a base near the city of Nizhny Novgorod in Russia. Utilities have been loath to publicize the Russian bomb supply line for fear of spooking consumers.  (Photo:  Vladimir Mashatin / AFP-Getty via the New York Times)