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Sino–Russian Cooperation on Arctic Microplastic Management
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Researchers examine the growing microplastic pollution problem in the Arctic, analyzing how the region's uniquely fragile ecosystem is particularly vulnerable to contamination and exploring frameworks for Sino-Russian cooperative management to address this transboundary environmental challenge.
With the continual modern growth in human activity and ecological change, the Arctic suffers the same threat of pollution from microplastics as everywhere else. With its uniquely fragile ecosystem, it is more difficult for the Arctic to recover from microplastic...
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