Microplastics in sea ice and seawater beneath ice floes from the Arctic Ocean

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Kanhai, La Daana K., Gardfeldt, Katarina, Krumpen, Thomas, Thompson, Richard C., O’Connor, Ian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Central Basin; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61948-6; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61948-6.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61948-6

Abstract Within the past decade, an alarm was raised about microplastics in the remote and seemingly pristine Arctic Ocean. To gain further insight about the issue, microplastic abundance, distribution and composition in sea ice cores (n = 25) and waters underlying ice floes (n = 22) were assessed i...