(NEW YORK) — The devastating tsunami that hit Japan in March created lasting images of houses, boats, cars and entire neighborhoods pulled out to sea. It also caused a massive sea of debris — up to 20 million tons of it, all of it potentially toxic — in an area estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Now, seven months later, that floating debris is on a direct collision course with the Pacific Coast of the United States — and it might be coming sooner than expected. “Across the wide Pacific, the drift rate…
