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Environment

If the Giant Trash Pile in the Pacific Were a Country, Would Someone Finally Clean It Up?

Activists want to turn the country-sized garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean into an official nation, and you can already apply for citizenship.

By Kate Wheeling
Before young Laysan albatrosses can leave Midway, the remote atoll where most of them grow up, they must literally purge their infancy. But thousands, handicapped by a diet of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, find themselves unable to ever leave the ground.
Environment

The Messengers

How do we get people to care about the environment? What if we're asking the wrong question?

By Brooke Jarvis