Microplastic pollution exists on the seabed in Antarctica in the same quantities as in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, scientists have found.
A study from researchers at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Queen's University Belfast and British Antarctic Survey, took samples from remote parts of the
"This is the first report globally of such a finding which we consider very important in our understanding of the global scale of microplastic pollution,"
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