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Arctic ice carries heavy freight of plastic
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Sea ice in the Arctic carries an abundance of microscopic particles from items such as food packaging. Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute/S. Hendricks
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Nature 557, 8 (2018)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-04967-8