researchers from the university of canterbury in christchurch have confirmed the discovery of pieces versity of canterbury in new zealand set “p canterbury in new zealand set up to sample fresh snowfall in antarctica or the latter part of 2019. they said they were pretty confident that they wouldn't mind any micro plastics. they took samples from 19 locations, and they were pretty surprised with what they found because they discovered micro plastics in every location including locations near scientific bases and also more remote places too, so this is a significant moment according to those researchers, they say that this is the very first published study that can terms the presence of micro plastics in antarctica. they believe these bits of plastic debris could have flown on the air over thousands of kilometres or more likely from nearby scientific bases. the presence of people on antarctica, they believe, could have produced this micro plastics footprint, in one of the most remote and pristine areas in the world, scientists have discovered these plastic contaminants. i have discover

researchers from the university of canterbury in christchurch have confirmed the discovery of piecesresh snowfall at various locations. 0ur correspondent, phil mercer, joins us from sydney. tell us more about what they found. ~ , ., found. when the expedition be . an in found. when the expedition began in late _ found. when the expedition began in late 2019, - found. when the expedition began in late 2019, the - found. when the expedition l began in late 2019, the team from the university of canterbury in new zealand were confident that they would not find micro plastics in such a remote and pristine environment as the antarctic and they collected samples from 19 locations on the ross ice shelf in antarctica and found evidence of plastic pollution at every single location. now some of the concentrations of micro plastics in the freshly fallen slow no were even bigger than those found in the nearby sea so this is raising concern that some of this debris has flown essentially in the air thousands of kilometres to the antarctic, or more likely was a result of humans, researchers were be

when researchers from the university of- from the university of canterbury in new zealand set out to confident they would not find any micro plastics, they took samples from 19 locations and they were pretty surprised with what they found because they discovered micro plastics in every location including locations near scientific bases and more remote places as well. this is a significant moment according to those researchers, they say this is the very first published study that confirms the presence of mike plastics in antarctica. they believe these bits of plastic debris could have flown on the year of thousands of kilometres or more likely from nearby scientific bases. —— air. the presence of people on antarctica they believe could well have reduced this micro plastic print so in one of the most remote and pristine areas in the world, scientists have discovered these plastic contaminants. i these plastic contaminants. i guess on the one hand we should be alarmed because this is new information about the climate and about how we are polluting the planet but we should also be gratef

canterbury. okay, there's gonna get that show yemen or his a lecturer in court, comparative politics of the university and can't in iraq be william davidson, senior if the piano list of the international crisis group. welcome to the program . be soon it. what do we know has happened in the or only region? yeah, recently, we're going go and went to the incident where the one that happened in which so many ponder or so to be dance, where killed. and most of them where the farm, i swear to be there for, for several years and different report this are coming out regarding the number of is which the report this by themselves, kentucky cree, some nation everywhere around 200 dead. and the report this mention that the, the number of the desk would be up to $700.00. that so the government also mentioned that there were incidents we so many people died. but the government, the nation, the number of dens. so it is, it is clear that a lot of the plans have been affected have died, but we don't know exactly how things happen or who did the killing because there is no independent investigation carried out. except