Factoid/2012/10/03
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There's Good News and Bad News From Antarctic Research
- "Up to one million new species of microscopic sea life have been observed for the first time, promising new revelations about the marine ecosystem that could revolutionise our understanding of climate change's impact on the world's oceans. [...] In a worrying indication of the reach of mankind's impact on the oceans, the Tara also encountered high levels of plastic pollution in the Antarctic. In the first research to quantify the scale of the problem in the remote Antarctic Ocean, scientists discovered that in a square kilometre of Antarctic sea, there could be as many as 50,000 plastic fragments." - excerpts from article in The Independent.
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