Southeast Asia is the world’s most polluted area in terms of marine plastics. The Mekong River is one of the largest rivers in the area, and ranked as somewhere between the 8th- and 11th-biggest contributor to plastics in the world’s oceans. Here, we investigate how microplastics drift ...
(insular Southeast Asia). Extending some 700 miles (1,100 km) southward from the mainland intoinsular Southeast Asiais theMalay Peninsula; this peninsula structurally is part of the mainland, but it also shares many ecological and culturalaffinitieswith the surrounding islands and thus functions as...