Plastic particles are contaminating the Rhine
What is true of the world’s oceans now applies to the Rhine, too. Researchers at the University of Basel have examined Basel’s stretch of the Rhine and discovered that the supposedly clean river is contaminated with tiny plastic particles. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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