Top posts

Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,689 posts.

Any topic
Any year
12415

Monitoring marine litter from space

Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a lorry-load of plastic enters the global ocean. Where it goes after that remains largely unknown. But a new ESA Discovery study reported in Nature Communications has proven the concept of monitoring floating plastic litter using satellites.