Ka batho ba fokolang hakana, motho a ka nahana hore Arctic e tla fetoha sebaka se se nang polasetiki, empa thuto e ncha e bontša hore ha se hole haholo le 'nete.Bafuputsi ba ithutang Leoatle la Arctic ba fumana maloanlahla a polasetiki hohle.Ho ea ka Tatiana Schlossberg oa The New York Times, metsi a Arctic a bonahala e le sebaka sa ho lahlela polasetiki e phaphametseng ka maqhubu a leoatle.
Plastiki e ile ea sibolloa ka 2013 ke sehlopha sa machaba sa bafuputsi nakong ea leeto la likhoeli tse hlano ho pota lefatše ka sekepe sa lipatlisiso Tara.Ha ba ntse ba le tseleng, ba ile ba nka lisampole tsa metsi a leoatle ho lekola tšilafalo ea polasetiki.Le hoja lipolasetiki ka kakaretso li ne li le tlaase, li ne li le sebakeng se itseng sa Greenland le ka leboea ho Leoatle la Barents moo ho ne ho le holimo ka tsela e sa tloaelehang.Ba ile ba hatisa liphuputso tsa bona koranteng ea Science Advances.
Polasitiki e bonahala e ntse e tsamaea ho theosa le thermohaline gyre, "lebanta la conveyor" la leoatle le tsamaisang metsi ho tloha tlase Leoatleng la Atlantic ho leba lipalong."Greenland le Leoatle la Barents ke lipheletsong tse shoeleng pompong ena ea polar," mongoli oa thuto ea etellang pele Andrés Cozar Cabañas, mofuputsi Univesithing ea Cadiz ea Spain, o boletse phatlalatsong ea litaba.
Bafuputsi ba hakanya hore palo eohle ea polasetiki sebakeng sena ke lithane tse makholo, tse nang le likaroloana tse nyenyane tse makholo a likete ka k'hilomithara.Sekala se ka ba seholo le ho feta, bafuputsi ba boletse, kaha polasetiki e ka 'na ea bokelloa fatše ka leoatleng sebakeng seo.
Eric van Sebille, sengoli-’moho sa phuputso ena, o ile a bolella Rachel van Sebille ho The Verge: “Le hoja boholo ba Arctic e le hantle, ho na le Bullseye, ho na le sebaka sena se nang le metsi a silafetseng haholo.”
Le hoja ho se bonolo hore polasetiki eo e lahleloe ka ho toba Leoatleng la Barents (e leng metsi a batang a leqhoa pakeng tsa Scandinavia le Russia), boemo ba polasetiki e fumanoeng bo fana ka maikutlo a hore e bile leoatleng ka nako e telele.
“Likaroloana tsa polasetiki tseo qalong li ka ’nang tsa e-ba boholo ba lisenthimithara kapa maoto, lia robeha ha li hlasetsoe ke khanya ea letsatsi, ebe li robeha ho ba likaroloana tse nyenyane le tse nyenyane, ebe qetellong li etsa karoloana ena ea polasetiki e boholo ba millimeter, eo re e bitsang microplastic.”- Carlos Duarte, ho boletse sengoli-'moho le eena Chris Mooney oa The Washington Post."Ts'ebetso ena e nka lilemo tse 'maloa ho isa ho tse mashome.Kahoo mofuta oa thepa eo re e bonang e fana ka maikutlo a hore e kene ka leoatleng lilemong tse mashome a ’maloa tse fetileng.”
Ho ea ka Schlossberg, lithane tse limilione tse 8 tsa polasetiki li kena maoatleng selemo se seng le se seng, 'me kajeno lithane tse ka bang limilione tse 110 tsa polasetiki li bokellana metsing a lefatše.Le hoja litšila tsa polasetiki metsing a Arctic li ka tlaase ho karolo e le 'ngoe lekholong ea kakaretso, Duarte o ile a bolella Muni hore ho bokella litšila tsa polasetiki Arctic ho sa tsoa qala.Lilemo tse mashome tsa polasetiki tse tsoang bochabela ho US le Europe li ntse li le tseleng 'me qetellong li tla qetella li le Arctic.
Bafuputsi ba fumane li-gyres tse 'maloa tsa tropike maoatleng a lefatše moo li-microplastics li atisang ho bokellana.Seo se tšoenyang hona joale ke hore Arctic e tla kena lethathamong lena."Sebaka sena ke pheletso, maqhubu a leoatle a siea litšila holim'a metsi," sengoli-'moho le eena Maria-Luise Pedrotti o boletse phatlalatsong ea litaba."Re kanna ra bona ho thehoa ha sebaka se seng sa lithōle Lefatšeng re sa utloisise ka botlalo likotsi tsa limela le liphoofolo tsa lehae."
Le hoja mehopolo e meng ea pie-in-the-sky ea ho hloekisa lithōle tsa leoatle ho tloha polasetiki e ntse e hlahlojoa, haholo-holo morero oa Ocean Cleanup, bafuputsi ba ile ba etsa qeto ea phatlalatso ea boralitaba hore tharollo e molemo ka ho fetisisa ke ho sebetsa ka thata ho thibela ponahalo ea polasetiki. pele.Leoatleng.
Jason Daley ke sengoli sa Madison, Wisconsin se sebetsanang le histori ea tlhaho, saense, maeto le tikoloho.Mosebetsi oa hae o hatisitsoe ho Discover, Popular Science, Outside, Men's Journal le limakasine tse ling.
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