VICE: Invasive Species Are Riding Plastics Across Oceans

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The debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan went all around the world, carrying invasive species with it in a “mass rafting event”.

Even without the tsunami, the amount of plastic floating near the top of the ocean makes coastal species able to live in the ocean and cross oceans in ways that were never possible before.

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