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Microplastics in sediment could trace decades of human activity worldwide
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What we know
In a review article recently published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Leicester (United Kingdom), report on how human activity has altered Earth's sediments over the decades.
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Microplastics in sediment could trace decades of human activity worldwide
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