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Far more microplastics floating in oceans than thought

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imageMicroplastics sample collected in a plankton net trawl in the North Pacific subtropical gyre from the SSV Robert C Seamans.Giora Proskurowski/Sea Education Association, Author provided

Plastic pollution in the ocean frequently appears as seabird guts filled with cigarette lighters and bottle caps, marine mammals entangled in fishing gear and...

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