“No to Food. Yes to Microplastics.” Arctic Wildlife Forced to Welcome Environmental Pollution

“If you're only looking at the large plastics, then you will seriously underestimate what's in the environment, unfortunately.”

Photo: Melanie Bergmann records Arctic Ocean plastic pollution between deployments on Polarstern icebreaker. August 31, 2017, Arctic Ocean. Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute / Esther Horvath

While people often think that there isn't enough happening in the Arctic to be affected by the frequent anthropogenic activities that go on in the rest of the world, …