Applied Sciences, 2020 Microplastics, as an emerging environmental contaminant, have attracted increasing attention worldwide. Previous studies have addressed this environmental problem in either the marine or continental environment, but ignored the water bodies in between ...
Yan Liu, Jiasong Fang
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Plastic as a Habitat for Bacteria and Human Pathogens. Subjects: Life Science / Biology Grades: 6-8 [PDF]
, 2017 This lesson plan invites 7th grade life science students to investigate marine plastic pollution as a habitat for bacteria and human pathogens. Students will examine the hazards of marine plastic pollution and learn about current science.
Laverty, Amanda
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The under-investigated plastic threat on seagrasses worldwide: a comprehensive review [PDF]
: Marine plastic pollution is a well-recognised and debated issue affecting most marine ecosystems. Despite this, the threat of plastic pollution on seagrasses has not received significant scientific attention compared to other marine species and ...
Battisti, Corrado +7 more
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceThe threat of anthropogenic marine litter, particularly plastic pollution, to marine ecosystems and human health, has spurred mitigation initiatives and global scientific research.
Radoslava Bekova, Bogdan Prodanov
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Plastic Pollution and Small Juvenile Marine Turtles: A Potential Evolutionary Trap [PDF]
, 2021 Emily M. Duncan +11 more
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An Analysis of Citizen Science and its Effect on Marine Plastic Pollution [PDF]
, 2019 My Honors thesis is an analysis of pollution data to gain more insight about the growing problem of marine plastic pollution. I retrieved online datasets collected by the Clean Swell trash collection mobile application and then analyzed this data using ...
Munster, Kathryn
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Life below water and the fate of humanity: with special reference to the efforts by adidas towards reducing the effects of plastic waste on the marine life. [PDF]
, 2021 Marine Pollution is all the human waste in terms of chemicals, unwanted substances, non-biodegradable waste such as plastic that is thrown into the Earth’s water.
Smita, Sonali
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The United States requires effective federal policy to reduce marine plastic pollution
Conservation Science and Practice, 2019 The amount of plastic entering the ocean is expected to increase by an order of magnitude by 2025. Marine plastic pollution threatens biodiversity through entanglement, ingestion, and chemical exposure.
Autumn R. Iverson
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Scanning Electron Microscopy and Metabolite Measurement Revealed the Stress Mechanism of PS-COOH Microplastics on Rhodotorula mucilaginosa AN5 [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Microplastics in the marine environment have been paid more and more attention by researchers, and the impact of these substances on marine microorganisms can not be ignored. Studies have shown that PS-COOH Microplastics are harmful to marine molluscs, algae and monads.
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The impact of BBC Blue Planet II on awareness of and attitude to plastic pollution [PDF]
, 2022 This research study addresses the issue of environmental pollution caused by plastic waste, which has had extensive negative impact on the ecological systems and human life worldwide.
Mirzakhani, Zahra
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