Weekly Science Matters feature graphic: Mao pf Pacific region shows immense floating plastic trash deposit; what happens to world's plastic output. MCT 200906000000; 13000000; 17000000; ENV; krtenvironment...

On an early morning in 1987, Sacramento State professor emeritus Nicholas Burnett parked his car in front of the American River levee, near the newly built Mendocino Hall. Out of curiosity, he climbed...