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Ocean Current Dumps Plastic in Remote Arctic Waters (14 of 17)

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Ocean Current Dumps Plastic in Remote Arctic Waters (14 of 17)

video: Video of a MANTA net used to collect plastic from Arctic surface waters. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 19, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Cózar at Universidad de Cádiz in Puerto Real, Spain, and colleagues was titled, 'The Arctic Ocean as a dead end for floating plastics in the North Atlantic branch of the Thermohaline Circulation.' view more 

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