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University of Rhode Island Scientists Discover Abundance of Plastic Built Up in Sea Ice Collected in Arctic's Northwest Passage
August 14, 2019
KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Aug. 14 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news:

A research team, led by the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, recently returning from a groundbreaking, 18-day expedition aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden has made a discovery related to plastics in the Arctic Ocean. The team, traveling as part of the National Science Foundation funded Northwest Passage Project (NPP) to investigate the Canadia . . .

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