Geo answer
For today’s Geo Quiz we were looking for the name of the huge vortex in the Pacific that’s been accumulating massive amounts of trash. The answer is the North Pacific Ocean Gyer. A team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego is visiting the site. Anchor Katy Clark speaks with Scripps graduate student Miriam Goldstein about what’s been dubbed the �Great Pacific Garbage Patch.�
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