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Global Warming and Plastic Pollution Are Inextricably Trapped in a “Vicious Circle”


Typically viewed as unrelated problems, global warming and plastic pollution are instead inextricably trapped in a “vicious circle” where one feeds the other, researchers in Sweden report in Nature Communications. The mutually-reinforcing relationship escalates global warming, the degradation of mat

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