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The shock findings emerged after scientists studied the impact of pollution in the West Pacific Kuril-Kamchatka Trench in the Pacific Ocean.

Senckenberg researchers Serena Abel and Angelika Brandt, together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute – Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Goethe University in ...

High levels of microplastic pollution have been detected by a research team in the Western Pacific Kuril-Kamchatka Trench.

Deep-sea trench in the Pacific Ocean turns into a “plastic trap” Together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Senckenberg scientists Serena Abel and Angelika Brandt examined sediment samples from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench for the presence of microplastics. In their study, which was recently published in the scientific journal “Environmental Pollution,” the researchers show that one kilogram of sediment contains between 14 and...

We know that tons of plastic waste washes into the ocean each year, but what we don’t know all that much about is what happens to it once it gets there. A new study as shone a light on the role deep-sea trenches can play in the movement of plastic pollution, revealing how they can act as traps, accumulating large amounts of microplastic particles and holding them there. The reason plastic pollution is so hard to trace through the marine environment is because the forces of the ocean degrade a...