Campaigners from Greenpeace UK have retrieved hundreds of pieces of plastic from clusters of seaweed floating in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean. They spent the last five days on board the Arctic Sunrise crossing the sea to launch a campaign to create a global network of marine sanctuaries under the Global Ocean Treaty. The ship crew made an unplanned stop to look inside a patch of sargassum seaweed – the golden algae that forms gigantic floating mats and gives the Sargasso Sea its name. Although this was a…
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