There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil.
So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untouched landscape: rocks formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean.
"We concluded that human beings are now acting as a geological agent, influencing processes that were previously completely natural, like rock formation," she told AFP. 'Plastic rocks' - rocks formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean - found in September 2022 on Trindade Island, Espirito Santo state, BrazilThe only human presence on the South Atlantic island is a small Brazilian military base and a scientific research center."So it was all the more horrifying to find something like this -- and on one of the most ecologically important beaches.
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