Plastic trash discovered in pristine Arctic snow
We've polluted the deepest oceans with plastic trash. Now it's the Arctic's turn: Blown by the wind,"microplastics" – which are tiny shreds of plastic less than five millimeters long – have been discovered in snow in remote areas of the Arctic, a new study suggests.
The discovery is especially disturbing because, according to the study,"the Arctic is still widely conceived as one of the last pristine environments on the globe." "The study demonstrates that atmospheric transport is a relevant process moving microplastics around, potentially over long ranges and on a global scale,” said Martin Wagner, a biologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology who wasn’t involved with the study. “Also, snow may be an important reservoir storing microplastics and releasing it during snow melt, something that has not been looked at before.
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