Plastic litter increasing on the remote Arctic seabed, cameras reveal #Arctic #pollution

Plastic Waste Increasing On Remote Arctic Seabed, Cameras Reveal

e360.yale.edu 24 Oct '12, 4pm

Plastic litter increasing on the remote Arctic seabed, cameras reveal #Arctic #pollution

24 Oct 2012: Plastic Waste Increasing On Remote Arctic Seabed, Cameras Reveal Deep-sea cameras deployed to monitor biodiversity on the Arctic seabed have documented a significant rise in the amount of plastic waste and other litter on the remote sea floors of the Far North, according to a new study. While looking at many thousands of seabed photos taken in 2011 between Greenland AWIPMR Plastic debris on Arctic seabed and the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen, deep-sea expert Melanie Bergmann of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research was struck by the number showing plastic waste. In a detailed analysis of the photographs — which are taken every 30 seconds by a deep-sea observatory reaching depths of 2,500 meters — Bergmann and her colleagues found that while plastic waste was seen in only one percent of photographs taken in 2002, that number had jumped to...

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