[Science] Even remote mountain glaciers are contaminated with microplastics – AI

Glaciers aren’t as pristine as people thinkForni Glacier Valtellina ItalyRoberto Moiola / Sysaworld By Adam VaughanMicroplastics have been found in a mountain glacier for the first time, in the latest sign of how plastics are leaving no corner of the planet untouched. The tiny pieces, which measure less than 5 millimetres in length, have shown up in places as remote as Arctic ice before. But now Roberto Sergio Azzoni at the University of Milan and colleagues have found them on a terrestrial glacier. Around 75 particles of microplastic per kilogram of sediment were found on the Forni …