Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20180529:12:41:00
Uncharted territory. the water flows slowly at the northern edge of an island in the river it's an ideal spot for deposits of fine grained settlement to form. the researchers are in luck. fredericka and chris. down into the riverbed. they then extract the core sample the sediment is almost all said and it's still too early to tell if it contains micro plastics. that's a common i think it's almost certain that will find plastic in the top layers at least a few plastic particles that's the hope. the team also hopes to determine the age of the sediment and of any particles embedded in it but that...