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Ubiquitous presence of plastic debris in global oceans, lakes and streams/rivers is a result of large-scale use of plastics in this period of human history, known as plastic age. These micro-plastic particles could serve as scavenging agents in the removal of dissolved particle …

Though the majority of the Antarctic continent is covered by ice, portions of Antarctica, mainly in the McMurdo Dry Valleys and the Transantarctic Mountains (TAM), are currently ice-free. The soils which have developed on these surfaces have been re-worked by the advance and ret…