An oft-cited 2015 paper in the journal Science estimated that anywhere from 4.8 to 12.7 million metrics tons of plastic waste may have been poured into the ocean in the year 2010 alone.
A recent study from the Journal Science estimated that between five and 12 million metric tons of plastic enter our ocean every year.
(An analysis by AAAS, the publisher of Science, estimates that nondefense research spending could drop by 27% under the Ryan budget).
A study published Thursday in Science estimates that roughly 11.1 billion pieces of pathogen-carrying plastic are affecting coral reefs in the Pacific.
The study, published in Friday's edition of the journal Science, estimates that China's heavily coastal population contributes 1.3 million to 3.5 million metric tons of plastic to the world's oceans each year, largely due to mismanaged waste.
Another paper in Science recently estimated that the world's 10 billion acres of forest are now absorbing about a third of carbon emissions, helping to limit carbon dioxide levels and keep the planet cooler than it would be otherwise.
A study commissioned by FLACSO, a Latin American social-science university, estimated that, based on victimisation surveys, Mexico's murder rate could be closer to 26 per 100,000.What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
The crowd "looked like a million, million and a half," he announced at a speech the day after inauguration, while a crowd-science expert estimated that Trump's audience was about one-third the size of Obama's approximately 1.8 million-person crowd in 2009.
In an email last week, Tom Louwerse, an assistant professor of political science at Leiden University, estimated that there are 4,095 possibilities for coalition governments this year.
Edward Weiler, director of the Goddard center and formerly associate administrator for science at NASA, estimated that over the years the Hubble had cost $9 billion.
