Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

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

  • Clare Ostle,
  • Richard C. Thompson,
  • Derek Broughton,
  • Lance Gregory,
  • Marianne Wootton,
  • David G. Johns

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09506-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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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.