Record concentration of microplastic discovered in Arctic sea ice, study says
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Arctic sea ice loaded with microplastics
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Antarctica's ice loss has sextupled since the 1970s, raising risk of sea level rise
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Microplastics are everywhere, even in the Arctic snow
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Microplastic drifting down with the snow
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Unwelcome Enrichment in the Arctic
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Plastic Pollution: Record Concentration of Microplastic Found in Arctic Sea Ice - Industry Tap
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Frontiers Microplastics in the Arctic: a transect through the Barents Sea
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Plastic pollution in the ARCTIC is now as bad as anywhere else on Earth
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Our Laundry Is Fouling Arctic Seawater With Microplastics – Mother Jones
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Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic
It's snowing micro-plastics in the Arctic and the Alps, research suggests - ABC News
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Record concentration of microplastics is found in Arctic sea ice
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A map of the record minimum Arctic summer sea ice extent (September
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The Chemical Menace Inside Glaciers and Icebergs
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Clothes washing likely behind 'pervasive' plastic pollution in the Arctic, researchers say