A Sea of Rubbish: Ocean Floor Landfills

ENN
Jan 19, 2021, 3:29 pm135 pts
The Messina Strait, a submarine bridge separating the island of Sicily from the Italian Peninsula, is the area with the largest marine litter density worldwide –more than a million objects per square kilometre in some parts–, as reported in a new review paper published in the journal Environmental Research…

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