If this article on the state of our oceans doesn't get your attention, nothing will!
Excerpt from PHYS.org:
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-02-depth-plastic-pollution-oceans-revealed.html#jCp
Excerpt from PHYS.org:
PhD candidate Julia Reisser and her international team published the study in the journal Biogeosciences, reporting the first ever high-resolution vertical profiles of plastic pollution in the so-called "ocean garbage patches".
Most of the submerged plastics were very small - less than 1 mm across. Previous studies noticed that tiny plastics were missing from the oceans.
"We have shown that at least a fraction of this missing plastic is still adrift at sea, but at depths greater than the surface layer that is usually sampled by scientists," Ms Reisser said.
By using a new measuring device called a Multi-level Trawl, the researchers were able to measure plastic concentrations in ten layers simultaneously, down to a depth of 5 meters.
While taking measurements in the North Atlantic Garbage Patch, the team demonstrated that the mass concentration of millimetre-sized plastics drops exponentially from the sea surface to deeper waters.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-02-depth-plastic-pollution-oceans-revealed.html#jCp
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