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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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Maria Pogojeva, Evgeniya Korshenko and Alexander Osadchiev
Rivers are among the main sources of marine litter, especially for semi-isolated sea areas with high populations and intense economic activity. The semi-isolated Black Sea located in the Eastern Europe is an example of such an area, whose watershed basin...
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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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Anna Sabbatini, Francesca Caridi, Giovanni Birarda, Elisa Costanzi, Adolfo Amici, Giovanna Mobbili, Carla Buosi, Giovanni De Giudici, Daniela Medas and Alessandra Negri
The most often dispersed environmental pollutants that are released both directly and indirectly into the environment that may eventually reach aquatic ecosystems and contaminate aquatic biomes are cigarette butts (CBs). Toxicants such as nicotine, dange...
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Siriporn Pradit, Prakrit Noppradit, Karnda Sengloyluan, Phudith Suwanno, Varaporn Tanrattanakul, Kittiwara Sornplang, Narissara Nuthammachot, Preyanuch Jitkaew and Thongchai Nitiratsuwan
Microplastic (MP) contamination in the marine environment has received growing attention. In 2022, the surface water of the U-Taphao River was sampled four times, in February, April, June, and August. The surface water samples were taken at seven differe...
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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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Martin Alejandro Gonzalez Jimenez, Andriarimina Daniel Rakotonirina, Bruno Sainte-Rose and David James Cox
The Ocean Cleanup introduces a Digital Twin (DT) describing the cleanup systems made of netting to extract marine litter from our oceans. It consists of two wings forming a ?U-shape? and a retention zone. During operation, the system is towed and drag-dr...
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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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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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