The Ocean's Microplastics Mess: Technology & Technique to Identify & Clean Up
has discovered microplastics in the Arctic, particles transported over large distances by the atmosphere and later returned to land through precipitation. The team, led by Dr. Melanie Bergmann and Dr. Gunnar Gerdts, conducted analyses on snow samples from regions in Germany such as Heligoland, Bavaria and Bremen, as well as the Swiss Alps and the Arctic. In each location, the snow contained high concentrations of microplastics, even in the most remote of areas (in the Arctic, samples contained up to 14,400 particles per liter). When analyzing sea ice from the Arctic Ocean, the amount and distribution
Scientists Find Micro Plastic in Arctic Ice
Centre for Polar and Marine Research found that snow collected on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard contained up to 14,400 particles of plastic per litre. The study found its highest concentration of particles -- 154,000 particles per litre -- near a rural road in the German federal state of Bavaria.Melanie Bergmann, a marine ecologist who co-led the research, published in Science Advances, said much of the large amounts of microplastic found in the Arctic in previous studies had probably been carried there through the atmosphere."Once we've determined that large quantities of microplastic
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