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January 23, 2023 Cover

Volume 101, Issue 3

Cover image:The wreck of the X-Press Pearl unleashed a record 1,680 metric tons of plastic pellets on Sri Lanka’s coast in 2021. Scientists want to understand more about the effects of this poorly studied type of marine pollution.

Credit: Chamila Karunarathne/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

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Grappling with the biggest marine plastic spill in history

The wreck of the X-Press Pearl unleashed a record 1,680 metric tons of plastic pellets on Sri Lanka’s coast in 2021. Scientists want to understand more about the effects of this poorly studied type of marine pollution

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