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Ocean currents push phytoplankton, and pollution, around the globe faster than thought
2016-04-19 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The billions of single-celled marine organisms known as phytoplankton can drift from one region of the world's oceans to almost any other place on the globe in less than a decade, Princeton University researchers have found. Unfortunately, the same principle can apply to plastic debris, radioactive particles and virtually any other human-made flotsam and jetsam that litter our seas, the researchers found. Pollution can thus become a problem far from where it originated within just a few years....
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