For this research, Utrecht master student Sophie ten Hietbrink worked for four weeks aboard the research vessel RV Pelagia. On a trip from the Azores to the continental shelf of Europe, she took water ...

This estimate shows that there is more plastic in the form of nanoparticles floating in the this part of the ocean, than there is in larger micro- or ...

It tells us, for example, that there are seven continents on Earth ... This resulted in the formation of a thick continental crust in the ocean, which has now been declared a newly discovered ...