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Record Levels of Microplastics Found in Arctic Sea Ice

posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 30 2018, @11:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the plastic-sink dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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
orcid.org/0000-0003-1531-1664

Previously: Microplastics in Arctic Ice

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:00AM (#674072)

    Your funky joke aside it's the observer effect you're after, where looking at something changes it. Uncertainly principle says we cannot measure for example both the location and speed of a particle accurately. Or some other similar connected pair of properties.

    Common mistake. Admittedly the quantum physics is a(n en)tangled subject.