A helicopter from the Swedish icebreaker Oden lands on an ice floe to pick up crew members involved in the retrieval of a scientific acoustic recorder containing valuable data on Arctic marine life movements in the Canadian Arctic on July 25. Earlier this month, a US-led team of scientists found tiny pieces of plastic in ice cores drilled in the Arctic. Photo: Inner Space Centre via ReutersA helicopter from the Swedish icebreaker Oden lands on an ice floe to pick up crew members involved in the retrieval of a scientific acoustic recorder containing valuable data on Arctic marine life movements in the Canadian Arctic on July 25. Earlier this month, a US-led team of scientists found tiny pieces of plastic in ice cores drilled in the Arctic. Photo: Inner Space Centre via Reuters
A helicopter from the Swedish icebreaker Oden lands on an ice floe to pick up crew members involved in the retrieval of a scientific acoustic recorder containing valuable data on Arctic marine life movements in the Canadian Arctic on July 25. Earlier this month, a US-led team of scientists found tiny pieces of plastic in ice cores drilled in the Arctic. Photo: Inner Space Centre via Reuters
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A helicopter from the Swedish icebreaker Oden lands on an ice floe to pick up crew members involved in the retrieval of a scientific acoustic recorder containing valuable data on Arctic marine life movements in the Canadian Arctic on July 25. Earlier this month, a US-led team of scientists found tiny pieces of plastic in ice cores drilled in the Arctic. Photo: Inner Space Centre via ReutersA helicopter from the Swedish icebreaker Oden lands on an ice floe to pick up crew members involved in the retrieval of a scientific acoustic recorder containing valuable data on Arctic marine life movements in the Canadian Arctic on July 25. Earlier this month, a US-led team of scientists found tiny pieces of plastic in ice cores drilled in the Arctic. Photo: Inner Space Centre via Reuters
A helicopter from the Swedish icebreaker Oden lands on an ice floe to pick up crew members involved in the retrieval of a scientific acoustic recorder containing valuable data on Arctic marine life movements in the Canadian Arctic on July 25. Earlier this month, a US-led team of scientists found tiny pieces of plastic in ice cores drilled in the Arctic. Photo: Inner Space Centre via Reuters
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