but plastic is especially harmful to many species. Photograph by David Doubilet The two predominant species of sargassum in the Sargasso Sea are the only seaweeds in the world that don’t begin ...

The Sargasso Sea Commission notes that endangered species ... Because of the ocean gyres’s circulating motions, plastic swirls into the sea, joining the hideous garbage patch that has formed ...

including a European Storm Petrel which nests in the UK but migrates to the Sargasso Sea to feed. However, over a period of half an hour, they also retrieved more than 300 pieces of plastic ...

Cousteau spots a plastic bag floating by ... Because it’s so far out in the open ocean, the Sargasso Sea is hard to protect. Unesco’s World Heritage Centre and International Union for the ...