Ever heard of plastic smog? This article calls attention to the global use, pollution, and production of single-use plastics – and the undertaking of Benoit Lecomte, a French swimmer, to swim across the Pacific Ocean. Lecomte’s feat, if successful, will not only make him the first person to do so, but the journey will act as an opportunity to study (and as a glaring reminder of) pollution in the ocean. Among the threats and obstacles Lecomte will face as he traverses the ocean are densely

Here's some interesting #sciArt for ya. These great gouge marks are left behind when a large iceberg drags across the bottom of the seabed. A large collection of these images has just been published, with the help of 250 scientists from 20 different countries. By gathering this high-resolution atlas of the seafloor, scientists can better determine how the climate is changing.

Two NASA Satellites were used to create this image of the straight of Gibraltar: Suomi NPP, and Aqua. The images were processed and combined to highlight the blooms of phytoplankton in the area, which has been caught up in the turbulent ocean currents moving through the strait.