Microplastic pollution at Qilianyu, the largest green sea turtle nesting grounds in the northern South China Sea [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Microplastics, new persistent pollutants, have recently attracted considerable attention. When present in beach sediments, microplastics may adversely affect the nesting and hatching of sea turtles on beaches.
Ting Zhang +7 more
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Microfluidics as a Ray of Hope for Microplastic Pollution
Biosensors, 2023 Microplastic (MP) pollution is rising at an alarming rate, imposing overwhelming problems for the ecosystem. The impact of MPs on life and environmental cycles has already reached a point of no return; yet global awareness of this issue and regulations regarding MP exposure could change this situation in favor of human health.
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Current levels of microplastic pollution impact wild seabird gut microbiomes
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 Consuming microplastics is known to harm marine wildlife in several ways, but effects on the microbiome are understudied. Here the authors demonstrate that two species of wild seabirds with larger amounts of microplastic in their guts had fewer commensal
Gloria Fackelmann +6 more
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Microplastic pollution characteristics and its future perspectives in the Tibetan Plateau.
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 Microplastics are an emerging and persistent pollutant due to their threat to global ecological systems and human health. Recent studies showed that microplastics have infiltrated the remote Third Pole - the Tibetan Plateau.
Ting Wang +8 more
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SN Applied Sciences, 2021 Owed to their simplicity, flexibility, lightweight, and low cost, plastics have become highly demanded in Africa as well as worldwide. However, the management of plastic wastes, particularly in African countries, is inadequate and most of the plastic ...
Tadele Assefa Aragaw
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Surgical face masks as a potential source for microplastic pollution in the COVID-19 scenario
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2020 Although there have been enormous reports on the microplastic pollution from different plastic products, impacts, controlling mechanisms in recent years, the surgical face masks, made up of polymeric materials, as a source of microplastic pollution ...
T. A. Aragaw
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Microplastic Pollution: Threats and Impacts on Global Marine Ecosystems
Sustainability, 2023 This study investigates the scope of global marine microplastic pollution and its implications on marine ecosystems and human health. We first delve into how plastic enters the ocean, with an emphasis on the accumulation of plastic along coastlines ...
Ren-Shou Yu, Sher Singh
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Microplastic Pollution in Deep-Sea Sediments From the Great Australian Bight
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Interest in understanding the extent of plastic and specifically microplastic pollution has increased on a global scale. However, we still know relatively little about how much plastic pollution has found its way into the deeper areas of the world’s ...
Justine Barrett +7 more
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Water or sediment? Assessing seasonal microplastic accumulation from wastewater treatment works
H2Open Journal, 2023 Microplastics have become a major environmental concern around the world due to their potential impact on ecosystem functioning and biota. Microplastics enter freshwater systems through a variety of sources, with wastewater treatment work discharges ...
Tatenda Dalu +3 more
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Migration Patterns and Prevention and Control Strategies for Microplastics under Reservoir Scheduling [PDF]
长江科学院院报[Objective] Microplastics are widely present in reservoirs across China, posing threats to water quality safety and the stability of reservoir ecological functions.
CHEN Yu-ling, LIN Li
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