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    Antonin @antonin1 CC BY-NC-SA 2/07/2020
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    Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain | WIRED
    ▻https://www.wired.com/story/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain

    https://media.wired.com/photos/5ee1591c30e7532f3baa1c0f/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/Science_plasticrain_1168518785.jpg

    Writing today in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles. “We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,” says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. “The number was just so large, it’s shocking.”

    It further confirms an increasingly hellish scenario: Microplastics are blowing all over the world, landing in supposedly pure habitats, like the Arctic and the remote French Pyrenees. They’re flowing into the oceans via wastewater and tainting deep-sea ecosystems, and they’re even ejecting out of the water and blowing onto land in sea breezes. And now in the American West, and presumably across the rest of the world given that these are fundamental atmospheric processes, they are falling in the form of plastic rain—the new acid rain.

    #plastique #déchets_plastiques #pollution

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      Dror@sinehebdo @sinehebdo 13/07/2020

      à rajouter à la quatrième compilation :
      ►https://seenthis.net/messages/818991

      #effondrement #collapsologie #catastrophe #fin_du_monde #it_has_begun #anthropocène #capitalocène

      Dror@sinehebdo @sinehebdo
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      Dror@sinehebdo @sinehebdo 13/07/2020

      Article original:

      Plastic rain in protected areas of the United States
      Janice Brahney, Margaret Hallerud, Eric Heim, Maura Hahnenberger, Suja Sukumaran
      Science 368:1257-1260, 2020
      ►https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6496/1257

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