Summer sea ice melt and wastewater are important local sources of microlitter to Svalbard waters
Human activities leave traces of marine litter around the globe. The Arctic is, despite its remoteness, emerging as an area of no exception to this environmental issue. Arctic sea ice has previously been found to constitute a temporal sink of microplastics, but the potential release and subsequent f...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Environment International |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412019327369 |