BBC5 年
Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
The region is often seen as one of the world's last pristine ... The scientists also found rubber particles and fibres in the snow. Researchers collected snow samples from the Svalbard islands ...
BBC5 年
Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
The region is often seen as one of the world's last pristine ... The scientists also found rubber particles and fibres in the snow. Researchers collected snow samples from the Svalbard islands ...
WCBE9 天
How dead stuff at the bottom of the ocean helps slow the pace of climate change
The oceans play a big role in preventing the Earth from getting even hotter due to climate change. That's thanks to the ocean ...
EurekAlert!1 个月
Hidden “tails” slow marine snow, impacting deep sea carbon transfer and storage
Newly discovered microscopic mucus tails – trailing from particles of marine snow particles – slow these particles’ descent into the deep ocean, research finds. This doubles the particles ...
The New York Times1 个月
These Scientists Tested Dolphin Breath. They Found Plastic.
In Arctic snow. Now, for the first time, tiny plastic particles have been detected in the breath of dolphins. The findings, published on Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One ...
朝日新聞社2 个月
Global warming poses threat to Hokkaido’s powder snow
Researchers from Hokkaido University and the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute studied how characteristics of snow particles in Hokkaido will change if the average ...