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No, not the white wintery fluffy type of snow! Depending on where you live there could be snow in April, but this time it’s snowing in the ocean! As long as there’s been marine life, it’s been snowing – a mixture of flakes that are mostly composed of dead things – animal carcasses, feces, mucus, viruses, dust, etc making their way into the depths.
This actually helps trap carbon in the seafloor, but now microplastics are starting to show up in this snow and is harming nature’s cooling process. A recent model found 99.8 percent of plastic that entered the ocean since 1950 had sunk below the first few hundred feet of the ocean. Scientists have found 10,000 times more microplastics on the seafloor than in contaminated surface waters…
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After leaving Les Sables d’Olonne yesterday at the very end of the morning, the 33 competitors in the 19th Solo Maître CoQ had some tricky first miles, particularly downwind of the Ile de Ré where they made numerous tacks edge flush with the coast to play with the currents, so much so that one of them, Basile Bourgnon, ran aground.
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