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lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts)
Mon May 6, 2019, 04:49 PM May 2019

Microplastics found in remote Pyrenees Mountains

earthsky.org

Microplastics have been discovered in a remote area of the French Pyrenees mountains. The particles travelled through the atmosphere and were blown into the once pristine region by the wind, according to a new study published April 15, 2019, in Nature Geoscience.

This is just the latest example of the “hidden risks” posed by plastics that humans cannot see with the naked eye.

https://earthsky.org/earth/microplastics-found-pyrenees-mountains

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Microplastics found in remote Pyrenees Mountains (Original Post) lordsummerisle May 2019 OP
If intelligent life somehow survives on this planet... hedda_foil May 2019 #1

hedda_foil

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Mon May 6, 2019, 05:20 PM
May 2019

the plastic boundary will be a major geological and archaeological feature

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