Debris from Japan tsunami extends 2,000 miles across Pacific

Guardian: Wreckage from Japan's devastating tsunami now stretches across a vast expanse of the North Pacific up to 2,000 miles wide, an ocean expedition has discovered. The first research vessel to journey into the debris field from last year's Japanese tsunami returned to port in Hawaii after 28 days at sea with new evidence of the wreckage now making its way to North American shores. "There is a huge plume. We estimate it's more than 1,000 miles wide, maybe almost 2,000 miles wide – and that debris...

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