Micro- and Nanoplastics: Its Impact on Antarctica and Similar Ecosystems

Laxmi Kant Bhardwaj; Moharana Choudhury; Linee Goswami; Farhana Rahman; Jiajun Xu

doi:10.1007/978-981-96-5047-7_11

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Micro- and Nanoplastics: Its Impact on Antarctica and Similar Ecosystems

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Laxmi Kant Bhardwaj, Moharana Choudhury, Linee Goswami, Farhana Rahman, Jiajun Xu

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This review documented the presence and impacts of micro- and nanoplastics in Antarctica, demonstrating that even the most remote continent on Earth is now measurably contaminated by plastic pollution. The findings confirm that microplastics are a truly global pollutant with no geographic refuge, carried by ocean currents and atmospheric transport to ecosystems previously considered pristine.

Antarctica is known as a pure and unspoiled continent. Now, this continent is becoming damaged day by day through plastic pollution. Current studies state that this untouched continent contains micro- and nanoplastics. Those studies’ outcome concerns the...

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