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A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean

  • Written by Matthew Savoca, Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
Teenager Alex Weber and friends collected nearly 40,000 golf balls hit into the ocean from a handful of California golf courses.Alex Weber, CC BY-ND

Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches carpeted with plastic trash or a seahorse gr...

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