Plastic Pollution at Sea Reaches Worrying Level
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A report on hundreds of research studies says plastic pollution at sea is reaching worrying levels. The report, by Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute, examined almost 2,600 research studies on plastic pollution. “We find it in the deepest ocean trenches, at the sea surface and in Arctic sea ice,” said biologist Melanie Bergmann. She is one of the report’s writers. Some areas, such as the Mediterranean, East China and Yellow Seas, already contain dangerous levels of plastic. The writers repod that almost every kind of ocean animal has been affected by plastic pollution. That pollution is harming important environmental systems such as coral reefs and mangroves.