The rise in ocean plastics evidenced from a 60-year time series

Plastics threaten the ocean environment. Here the authors present a 60 year time series (via the continuous plankton recorder) for the North Atlantic, revealing a significant increase in marine plastic after 1990.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Clare Ostle, Richard C. Thompson, Derek Broughton, Lance Gregory, Marianne Wootton, David G. Johns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09506-1