image: The Tara research vessel dragging a MANTA net to collect plankton and microplastics. 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
Credit: [Credit: © Anna Deniaud / Tara Expeditions Foundation]