BBC News reports that "ice cores were gathered from five regions throughout the Arctic Ocean in the spring of 2014 and summer of 2015" and the researchers "found concentrations of over 12,000 particles per litre of sea ice - which is two to three times higher than" than they had seen previously.
Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic
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Previously: Microplastics in Arctic Ice
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @02:29PM (1 child)
Also, I attribute the increase in hurricanes on the use of helicopters by frenzied climate researchers.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 30 2018, @05:18PM
Hey, don't make fun of that theory! I worked out how and why hurricanes and tornadoes happened, before I even started school! All on my own, I worked out the butterfly effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect [wikipedia.org] Yeah, the teachers in the public school system taught me "better", but I still like my original theory.