The increasing production of plastics together with the insufficient waste management has
led to massive pollution by plastic debris in the marine environment. Contrary to other known …

The global impact of pollution on human and wildlife health is a growing concern. The health
impacts of pollution are significant and far-reaching yet poorly understood as no one field of …

In 2010, a team of marine scientists based in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, began dipping
fine mesh nets into the sea in the middle of the North Atlantic. As each net skimmed the …

We focused on investigating the effects and mechanisms of polystyrene (PS) microplastics in
Alzheimer's disease (AD). PS could promote the cognitive impairment in mice and …

Sewage treatment plants (STPs) are considered as a prominent source for releasing
microplastics (MPs) into the riverine systems. Though MPs abundance and removal efficacy …

Research into plastic pollution has extensively focused on abiotic vectors, overlooking
transport by animals. Opportunistic birds, such as white storks (Ciconia ciconia) often forage …

Plastics are now ubiquitous in the environment and have been studied in wildlife and in
ecosystems for more than 50 years. Measurement of size, shape and colour data for …

The rapid expansion of the global footprint of marine capture fisheries over recent decades,
combined with the transition to synthetic and more durable materials used for fishing gear …

Abstract “The Gully”, situated off Nova Scotia, Canada, is the largest submarine canyon in
the western North Atlantic. This unique oceanographic feature, which became a Marine …

There remain significant gaps in knowledge about 'sub-lethal'impacts of plastic ingestion,
particularly chronic impacts on cells, tissues, or organs. Few studies have applied traditional …