beSpacific<p>The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/alga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alga</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Melosiraarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Melosiraarctica</span></a>, which grows under <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ArcticSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArcticSea</span></a> ice, contains ten times as many <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/microplastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microplastic</span></a> particles as the surrounding <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/seawater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seawater</span></a>. This concentration at the base of the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/foodweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foodweb</span></a> poses a threat to creatures that feed on the algae at the sea surface. Clumps of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/deadalgae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deadalgae</span></a> also transport the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plastic</span></a> with its <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pollutants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollutants</span></a> particularly quickly into the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/dee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dee</span></a> sea &amp; explains high <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/microplastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microplastic</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/concentrations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>concentrations</span></a> in the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/sediment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sediment</span></a> there. <a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-04-arctic-ice-algae-heavily-contaminated.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2023-04-arctic-i</span><span class="invisible">ce-algae-heavily-contaminated.html</span></a></p>