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'It is raining plastic': Scientists find colorful microplastic in rain 老天爷在下塑料雨：科学家在雨中发现了彩色的微小塑料
By Jen Christensen/ August 14, 2019 剪辑：BM︱翻译：Ray︱校对：Sally It's raining plastic -- that's what a survey of rainfall in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, concluded recently.
最近，科罗拉多州丹佛市和博尔德市的一项降雨调查得出结论，天上在下塑料雨。 The rainfall survey, titled "It is raining plastic," was put together by scientists at the US Department of the Interior and US Geological Survey.美国内政部和美国地质调查局的科学家们联合进行了一项名为“正在下的塑料雨”的降雨调查。 They found plastic showed up in 90% of the samples, mostly in fiber form, and came in avariety of colors. Blue was most prevalent, followed by red, silver, purple, green, yellow and other colors, the study says.他们发现，90%的取样中都出现了塑料，大部分是纤维状的，而且颜色丰富。研究表明，蓝色最为普遍，其次是红色、银色、紫色、绿色、黄色和其他颜色。It's unclear where the plastic is coming from, but plastic contamination has been a growing problem throughout the world.目前还不清楚塑料是从哪里来的，但是塑料污染已经成为全世界日益严重的问题。Scientists have found microplastic particles in rain before. They saw it in the rain falling in the Pyrenees in southern France. It has wound up in remote and otherwise pristine islands. Trillions of pieces of plastic litter float through the ocean, killing fish and other animals. An earlier study found that people are swallowing an average of 5 grams of plastic every week, about the weight of a credit card.科学家们以前也在雨中发现过塑料微粒。那是在法国南部比利牛斯山脉的雨中发现过它。它已经在偏远和其他原始的岛屿上开始肆虐了。数以万亿计的塑料垃圾漂浮在海洋中，杀死鱼类和其他动物。一项早期的研究发现，人们每周平均吞下5克的塑料，大约相当于一张信用卡的重量。It's unclear what the health effects of living with all this plastic will be, scientists say, although several studies are underway.科学家说，尽管目前有几项研究正在进行，但还是不清楚这些塑料会对健康造成什么影响。Some cities have tried to cut back on plastic by banning plastic bags. Boulder, one of the sites for the rain survey, has a plastic bag ban.一些城市试图通过禁止使用塑料袋来减少塑料的使用。博尔德市是雨水调查的地点之一，就已经下达了塑料袋禁令。 剪辑：BM︱翻译：Ray︱校对：Sally
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