There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil.
So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untouched landscape: rocks formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean.
She was working near a protected nature reserve known as Turtle Beach, the world's largest breeding ground for the endangered green turtle, when she came across a large outcrop of the peculiar-looking blue-green rocks.Intrigued, she took some back to her lab after her two-month expedition. "We concluded that human beings are now acting as a geological agent, influencing processes that were previously completely natural, like rock formation," she told AFP., which scientists are talking about a lot these days: the geological era of human beings influencing the planet's natural processes. This type of rock-like plastic will be preserved in the geological record and mark the Anthropocene.
The only human presence on the South Atlantic island is a small Brazilian military base and a scientific research center."So it was all the more horrifying to find something like this – and on one of the most ecologically important beaches."
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