Emerging contaminants: A One Health perspective

The Innovation, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 5(4), P. 100612 - 100612

Published: March 13, 2024

Language: Английский

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Ideas and perspectives: Human impacts alter the marine fossil record

Biogeosciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 21(9), P. 2177 - 2188

Published: May 3, 2024

Abstract. The youngest fossil record is a crucial source of data documenting the recent history marine ecosystems and their long-term alteration by humans. However, human activities that reshape communities habitats also alter sedimentary biological processes control formation archives recording those impacts. These diverse physical, geochemical, disturbances include changes in sediment fluxes due to alluvial coastal landscapes, seabed disturbance bottom trawling ship traffic, ocean acidification deoxygenation, removal native species, introduction invasive ecosystem engineers. novel modify sedimentation rates, depth intensity mixing, pore-water saturation state, preservation potential skeletal remains – parameters controlling completeness spatiotemporal resolution record. We argue humans have become major force transforming nature ways can both impede improve our ability reconstruct past ecological climate dynamics. A better understanding feedback between impacts on offers new research opportunities tools for interpreting geohistorical ongoing anthropogenic transformation ocean.

Language: Английский

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Unveiling Plastifoamcrete: Composition, Characteristics, and Environmental Threats of Urban Plastic Variants

Environmental Pollution, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 370, P. 125906 - 125906

Published: Feb. 22, 2025

Language: Английский

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Overview of the Mineralosphere and research progress on its environmental effects

Science China Earth Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 19, 2025

Language: Английский

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Plasticlusters: A marine litter microhabitat in a marina of Tunisia, N Africa

Marine Pollution Bulletin, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 202, P. 116389 - 116389

Published: April 26, 2024

Plastic debris is a significant and rapidly developing ecological issue in coastal marine ecosystems, especially areas where it accumulates. This study introduces "plasticlusters", new form of floating agglomeration found the Yasmine Hammamet marina (Tunisia, North-Africa), loosely attached to pontoon ropes around water surface level. The analysis two samples revealed that they were formed primarily by average 2.11 mm polystyrene fragments, 3.43 fibers, 104 polypropylene polyethylene sheets, 122 decomposing seagrass leaves. They inhabited several taxa, including at least 2 cryptogenic 5 non-indigenous species (NIS). Unlike other plastic formations, plasticlusters provide novel potentially temporal microhabitat fouling assemblages due their loose unconsolidated structure which, combined with marinas being NIS hubs, could enhance dispersion. results this raise concerns about effects accumulation biocontamination inside marinas.

Language: Английский

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Groundwater systems under siege: The silent invasion of microplastics and cock-tails worldwide

Environmental Pollution, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 356, P. 124305 - 124305

Published: June 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Travertine deposition rather than tourism activity is the primary contributor to the microplastic risks in alpine karst lakes

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 476, P. 135192 - 135192

Published: July 13, 2024

Language: Английский

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Organo-mineral interaction between plastic film and sedimentary rock induced by UV irradiation

Chemical Geology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 662, P. 122240 - 122240

Published: June 20, 2024

Language: Английский

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Laboratory Measurements of Pyrene and Acenaphthene Partition into Microplastics

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12(2), P. 337 - 337

Published: Feb. 16, 2024

Microplastics are a major environmental issue. In marine systems, these break down into small fragments that may lodge within organisms, but they behave as vectors for chemicals when pollutants such metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pesticides, and pharmaceuticals absorbed by the particles. The rate extent of uptake organic compounds onto microplastics is dependent on range factors sites available surface, type plastic, compound being sorbed, with hydrophobicity an important property. Laboratory experiments determined pyrene acenaphthene (and sometimes phenanthrene) pellets polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyoxymethylene (POM), polypropylene (PP) polystyrene (PS). kinetics in reveals half-lives ~10 h. partition plastic was similar phenanthrene, though lower acenaphthene. This not surprising because octanol-water distribution coefficient about order magnitude smaller than pyrene, suggesting it less hydrophobic. PAHs distributed most strongly PP only weakly PVC. fragmentation oxidation means sorb increasing amounts material age.

Language: Английский

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Commercial fishing vessels as marine-based sources of plastic pollution: The Namibian perspective

Ocean & Coastal Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 258, P. 107376 - 107376

Published: Sept. 14, 2024

Language: Английский

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