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With plastic pollution ending up in our ocean, we all need to be part of the solution by using it less.
We continue reporting on ocean plastics this week. Learn how surfers are recycling plastic waste.
Digging for snow and ice samples in the Amundsen Sea. Researchers are interested in tracking persistent organic pollutants through the polar food web, believing the source to be glacial meltwater. Photo: Ingegerd Hageman, NSF.
Global contaminants are Antarctica's unwelcome import.