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Environment
Michael Leidig

Horror Of The Deep: Plastic Waste Has Turned Deep Sea Into Trash Can Of Oceans

The incredible diversity in the deepest levels of the ocean is being threatened with extinction by micro-plastics, a new study has revealed.

The shock findings emerged after scientists studied the impact of pollution in the West Pacific Kuril-Kamchatka Trench in the Pacific Ocean.

They discovered that after taking core samples at a depth of almost 10 km, the levels of micro-plastic were far higher than they had expected.

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