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The ocean is full of tiny plastic particles – we found a way to track them with satellites

  • Written by Christopher Ruf, Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
imagePlastic fragments washed onto Schiavonea beach in Calabria, Italy, in a 2019 storm. Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB /LightRocket via Getty Images

Plastic is the most common type of debris floating in the world’s oceans. Waves and sunlight break much of it down into smaller particles called microplastics – fragments less than 5 millimeters...

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