Altered Oceans

The LA Times is running a five part series (articles + multimedia presentations) on how we are altering the oceans--from creating dead zones, to the effects of pollutants, etc. Perhaps most striking and shocking to my mind is the description of the garbage that is accumulating in two giant eddies (twice the size of Texas!!) in the Pacific Ocean. One near Japan (trash from California) and the other near Hawaii (trash from Asia).