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Xiaobiao Xu, Eric P. Chassignet, Philippe Miron and Olmo Zavala-Romero
The persistent increase in marine plastic litter has become a major global concern, with one of the highest plastic concentrations in the world?s oceans found in the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR). In this study, we use marine plastic litter tracking simul...
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Sang Lyeol Kim, Hyung Gon Lee, Yosup Park and Ok Hwan Yu
Pollution associated with marine debris is of global ecological concern, as it threatens wildlife and local economies. Submerged marine debris alters local benthic species composition and community characteristics. The study site of Jaguri, Jeju Island, ...
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Nadezda Vladimirovna Dovzhenko, Victor Pavlovich Chelomin, Andrey Alexandrovich Mazur, Valentina Vladimirovna Slobodskova, Aleksandra Anatolyevna Istomina and Sergey Petrovich Kukla
Pollution of global oceans by plastic litter is one of the most important ecological problems of our time. At the same time, the active sorption of highly toxic chemicals dissolved in water by plastic also poses a threat to the marine environment and its...
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Shuo-Fang Liu, Tzu-Chieh Lee, Maggie McMillin, Yuan-Tai Li, Yun Li and Yuan-Chin Hsu
Microplastics are the biggest pollutants in marine ecosystems. Each year, over 8 million tons of plastic enter the oceans. Via microbes, microplastics may transport toxic chemicals into food webs. It is therefore important to create a way to remove micro...
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Giulia Cipriano, Roberto Carlucci, Stefano Bellomo, Francesca Cornelia Santacesaria, Carmelo Fanizza, Pasquale Ricci and Rosalia Maglietta
Relatively scant information is available on the Risso?s dolphin in comparison to the other species regularly present in the Mediterranean Sea. Recently, its conservation status has been updated to Endangered by the International Union for Conservation o...
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Livia Maglic, Lovro Maglic, Ana Grbcic and Marko Gulic
The paper examines the sampling effectiveness of seabin devices and the composition of floating marine litter in port areas. Sampling was carried out from May to September 2021 in Port of Cristo and Port of Colonia de Sant Jordi on Mallorca Island, Spain...
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Francisco Asensio-Montesinos, Milagrosa Oliva Ramírez, María Teresa Aguilar-Torrelo and Giorgio Anfuso
Litter on beaches is one of the most difficult problems in coastal management and every year, much efforts and public money are invested to try to alleviate and solve the problem. Cigarette butts (CB) are among the most widespread abandoned personal item...
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José C. Ferreira, Renato Monteiro, Lia Vasconcelos, Cláudio M. Duarte, Filipa Ferreira and Euclides Santos
Marine litter has been considered one of the most serious global challenges, requiring urgent action by governmental bodies, especially in African Small Island Developing States (SIDS), where resources and research are limited. In addition to this, waste...
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Svetlana Pakhomova, Igor Zhdanov and Bert van Bavel
Plastic pollution in the marine environment has turned into an important research topic in recent decades. Until recently, studies were often based on visual assessment only, which is not enough to draw any conclusion about the chemical nature of found p...
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Cristiana Guerranti, Guido Perra, Tania Martellini, Luisa Giari and Alessandra Cincinelli
Plastic debris occurring in freshwater environments, which can either come from the surrounding terrestrial areas or transported from upstream, has been identified as one of the main sources and routes of plastic pollution in marine systems. The ocean is...
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