Is it snowing microplastics in Siberia? Russian scientists find airborne fibers in remote samples
Tomsk scientists have previously found microplastics in the digestive systems of fish caught in Siberian rivers, confirming that they are contributing to polluting the Arctic Ocean with plastic.
March 19, 2021
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MOSCOW — Russian scientists are trying to understand the scale of a potential threat to the environment in Siberia: snow polluted with microplastics that then melts and seeps into the ground.
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