WIRED MAGAZINE: 'Microplastic Hot Spots' Are Tainting Deep-Sea Ecosystems

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Off the coasts of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea swirls an omnipresent yet vanishingly small menace: microplastics. By this point, it comes as no surprise to scientists that they would find the tiny bits of plastic in seafloor sediments—last year researchers found them in samples off the coast of Southern California. But in the Mediterranean, the sheer concentration of them is astounding: Writing today in the journal Science, researchers report finding 1.9 million microplastic particles in a single square meter of seafloor sediment only 5 centimeters thick.

Period30 Apr 2020

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  • Title'Microplastic Hot Spots' Are Tainting Deep-Sea Ecosystems
    Media name/outletWIRED MAGAZINE
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date30/04/20
    DescriptionOff the coasts of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea swirls an omnipresent yet vanishingly small menace: microplastics. By this point, it comes as no surprise to scientists that they would find the tiny bits of plastic in seafloor sediments—last year researchers found them in samples off the coast of Southern California. But in the Mediterranean, the sheer concentration of them is astounding: Writing today in the journal Science, researchers report finding 1.9 million microplastic particles in a single square meter of seafloor sediment only 5 centimeters thick.
    URLhttps://www.wired.com/story/microplastic-hotspots/
    PersonsIan Kane
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