ocean cleanup
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MrBeast Misses the Point
This week, YouTuber MrBeast posted a video with an elaborate, death-free reconstruction of the challenges from the popular South Korean drama Squid Game to his, as of the time of this writing, 82.9 million followers. The video garnered criticism from many who saw it as a tone-deaf stunt that completely misses the show’s point about…
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Huge, Maybe Ineffective Pollution Scooper Launches Towards Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Dutch nonprofit Ocean Cleanup deployed a 609.60m-long, $US20 million unmanned boom designed to gather some of the Pacific Ocean’s massive amounts of plastic garbage from San Francisco Bay on Saturday. But it’s not clear the plan will work, the New York Times wrote.