Environmental

As if the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the world’s largest garbage dump, wasn’t enough, now a garbage patch has been discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, according to Red Orbit. Specifically, it’s in the Sargasso Sea, between Bermuda and the Azores Islands, but those kinds of semantics pale in significance when compared with the petroleum-based plastics [...]

As of Monday afternoon, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana spread to cover more than 1800 square miles. The oil spill is coming from a leak in the well that was drilled by the Transocean Deepwater Horizon, a giant offshore drilling rig that exploded and sank last week. [...]