Researchers make disturbing discovery in one of most remote locations on Earth: 'They can be transported there'

Researchers make disturbing discovery in one of most remote locations on Earth: 'They can be transported there'

A Vermont-based research team recently returned from the Canadian Arctic with an unsettling discovery buried in the ice, according to the VT Digger: traces of microplastics in one of the most remote, untouched environments on Earth. What's happening? Researchers from Vermont State University and Castleton University spent two weeks in Cambridge Bay, Canada, collecting snow, sea ice, and permafrost samples as part of the Dynamic Research of Arcti…