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Microplastics in Arctic Snow Suggest Widespread Air Pollution (8 of 10)

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Microplastics in Arctic Snow Suggest Widespread Air Pollution (8 of 10)

video: Getting to sampling sites with a helicopter during an Arctic expedition with the Alfred Wegener Institute's ice-breaking research vessel Polarstern. Landing and launch on ice. 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." view more 

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