Scientists have found bits of polystyrene in the guts of tiny, soil-dwelling organisms in the Antarctic, raising concern that microplastics pollution has
, raising concern that microplastics pollution has already"deeply" entered the world's most remote land-based food systems.
They warned this could also be a new stressor for fragile polar ecosystems already facing threats from climate change. Researchers, led by scientists from Italy's University of Siena, collected the creatures from a chunk of polystyrene foam covered in a green layer of micro-algae, moss and lichens on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands.
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