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Most of the sample is organic material and not many plastic particles at first glance that's a good sign the beach appears to be very clean but we can identify many fibers with the naked eye what looks like hair could turn out to be plastic it needs more analysis. but they could still be a hard concentration of micro plastics in the sea it all depends on the ocean currents. that come with it and that are samples from the canary islands who are full of micro plastics. you can see the difference everything that's organic fire would be plastic over there it's a disgrace made a. mess tourism hasn'...

Look at ways of protecting ocean ecosystems while creating a sustainable economy. now the delegates at that conference will be talking about the major threats to our oceans they include overfishing as the world's population grows so too the demand for fish about a third of global fish stocks are close or to exhausted or have already collapsed climate change of course is another key issue our oceans absorb excess greenhouse heat and c o two which impacts underwater organisms rising sea levels also threaten the livelihoods of many and then there's marine pollution and not just the trash that was...

Sea levels also threaten coastal communities and livelihoods and pollution of course is also a major threat and it's not just a matter of trash washing up on our shores contaminants like micro plastics risk getting into the food chain now the chief diplomat for the is at the conference and malta let's take a listen to what she said earlier. when oceans healthy they are one of the greatest resources we have if the oceans we're a country they would be one of the greatest reward economists and for sure they would have a seat in the g. seven. millions of jobs and livelihoods depend on our whole sh...

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...

A lot of treatment plant like this is not designed to filter out micro plastics it only removes organic materials and detergents from sewage. but to a lot of. water fleas are an important source of food for fish the tiny christians normally eat alkie animal ecologist christian laforce is seeing what happens when he feeds them plastic particles as well. he discovers the water fleas can't tell the difference between the two and will ingest both the forces also discovered micro plastics and worms snails and muscles. the researcher uses u.v. light to illuminate the plastic particles inside the wat...