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Ecotoxicology: Pollutants plumb the depths

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An ‘underwater elevator’ takes research 10,000 m under the sea and reveals a pollution legacy in remote oceanic trenches.

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Figure 1: Deeper and down.

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Dafforn, K. Ecotoxicology: Pollutants plumb the depths. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 0075 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0075

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