Microplastics in Arctic Snow Suggest Widespread Air Pollution (4 of 10) (IMAGE)

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Microplastics in Arctic Snow Suggest Widespread Air Pollution (4 of 10)

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Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute use the board helicopter from the icebreaking research vessel Polarstern to collect snow samples. Even in the Arctic the snow is polluted with microplastics. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 14th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Bergmann at Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "White and wonderful? Microplastics prevail in snow from the Alps to the Arctic."

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Mine Tekman, Alfred-Wegener-Institut

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