7-year study reveals plastic fragments from all over the globe are rising rapidly in the North Pacific Garbage Patch  - IOP Publishing
ioppublishing.org
A study published today in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that centimetre-sized plastic fragments are increasing much faster than larger floating plastics in the North Pacific Garbage Patch [NPGP], threatening the local ecosystem and potentially the global carbon cycle.   The research, which draws from not-for-profit The Ocean Cleanup’s systematic surveys of the NPGP […]
This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/science by /u/Wagamaga on 2024-11-19 09:13:42+00:00.

Original Title: 7-year study reveals plastic fragments from all over the globe are rising rapidly in the North Pacific Garbage Patch. Small debris hotspots increased in concentration from 1 million per km2 in 2015 to over 10 million per km2 in 2022