Microplastics may be changing the colour of the Pacific Ocean, satellites show
The ocean around a plastic-dense gyre is brightening, with suspended microplastics the most likely cause.
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- CNNThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch may now have so much plastic, it’s changing the color of the ocean
- Science Media Centre EspañaMicroplastics could be behind the change in the colour of the ocean in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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- NewscientistMicroplastics may be changing the colour of the Pacific Ocean