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: 2) by arslan on Tuesday May 01 2018, @01:01AM
Call me a cynic, but when lots of money are involved, I've always been biased toward that possibility being quite real.