Pure as snow? Scientists say air carrying plastics to Arctic

Scientists say they've found an abundance of tiny plastic particles in Arctic snow, indicating that so-called microplastics are being sucked into the atmosphere and carried long distances to some of the remotest corners of the planet.

The research demonstrated the fragments may become airborne in a way similar to dust, pollen and fine particulate matter from vehicle exhausts. Although the Arctic samples were less contaminated, the third-highest concentration in the samples the researchers analyzed — 14,000 particles per liter — came from an ice floe in the Fram Strait off eastern Greenland, she said.

They said sucked

That's just pieces of the dome falling down , nothing lasts forever

Yum

You tellin me that someone's used condom is in my snow

Wow! Those fucking Chinese really know how to perpetrate a hoax! MAGA 😆🖕🏽🖕🏻

Yeah i saw the same thing about microplastics detected on remote mountaintops. Maybe after our last gasp a species will evolve that can metabolize plastics. My money’s on goats.

Use glass.

I had to google “remotest”, to see if it was a real word. If not, naturally, I would get unnecessarily high and mighty and act like I know things on the internet. It’s a word though.

Planetary destruction on a global scale, caused by humans.

Wonder what that’s doing to our DNA ?

Snow ! I thought it had all melted?

Wow

This Saturday is goan be loud 17 aug...

India to BanSingleUsePlastic from 2nd October announced PM narendramodi in his Independence Day speech!

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So is that a good or bad thing?

I’m not surprised.

Climate change isn't going to end humanity. Little plastic pellets in the air, water, snow, and raining down on food and crops are.

Talk to India and China. They are the cause, but you want to hurt America. Is ABC in the running for Pravda America?

Are we breathing them too? What are their effects on our internal organs?

Like Sahara and Gobi desert sand. Only worse.

What scientists

Does this mean plastic will save the glaciers?

TheWarMonitor I'm not a climate change guy.. but I am a PLASTIC change guy.. Get rid of it, we don't need it...

Ah, they just forgot to rinse out their jars from their last experiment. Contamination - will have to throw that study out, and start over.

Great, just Great!

We’re all gonna die from some kinda of plastic made cancer aren’t we?

Can not be evolution of the snow?

this is highly depressing. we need to consume less and recycle more

So we're sucking down plastic air into our lungs just like the sea creatures in the ocean.

Deep deep shit

Planet Earth is round. It doesn't have corners. This is fake news.

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