Kolkata: A team of marine biologists during routine monitoring of marine litter in Andaman and Nicobar Islands has stumbled upon a piece of rock made from plastic from a beach on Aves island. This ...

A team of marine biologists during routine monitoring of marine litter in some of the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands, have stumbled upon a piece of rock made from plastic.

The plastigomerate recovered from Aves Island in the Andaman and Nicobar. Credit: Prasun Goswami. A research team has found a piece of ‘plastiglomerate’ during a marine litter survey in the ...

The Great Nicobar Island of Andaman has an area of about 1044 ... Plastic pollution has emerged as one of the severest threats to ocean ecosystems and its concentration has reached 5,80,000 pieces ...

They had also expressed concern that the plastic might also pose a risk to leatherback turtles and their hatchlings on the Great Nicobar, a key breeding site for this species. “Our snapshot survey ...

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