Analyzing microplastics with Nile Red: Emerging trends, challenges, and prospects

VC Shruti, F Pérez-Guevara, PD Roy… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The development and applications of effective analytical techniques for identification and
quantification of microplastics in diverse spheres are increasing in the scientific arena. Nile …

[HTML][HTML] A plastic world: A review of microplastic pollution in the freshwaters of the Earth's poles

F Citterich, AL Giudice, M Azzaro - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) pollution is of great environmental concern. MPs have been found all over
the Earth, including in the poles, which is indicative for the important threat they constitute …

High abundances of microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments: evidence from Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

EM Cunningham, SM Ehlers, JTA Dick… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Plastic pollution in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean has been recorded in scientific
literature since the 1980s; however, the presence of microplastic particles (< 5 mm) is less …

Microplastics in four bivalve species and basis for using bivalves as bioindicators of microplastic pollution

J Ding, C Sun, C He, J Li, P Ju, F Li - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastics in bivalves have caused widespread concern due to their potential health risk
to humans. In this study, microplastics in the digestive systems of four locally cultured bivalve …

Microplastics in the high-altitude Himalayas: assessment of microplastic contamination in freshwater lake sediments, Northwest Himalaya (India)

K Neelavannan, IS Sen, AM Lone, K Gopinath - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we assess the magnitude, type, and sources of microplastic (MP) in lake bottom
sediments collected from freshwater Anchar Lake, located in the Kashmir Valley, Northwest …

[HTML][HTML] Physiological and biochemical responses to caffeine and microplastics in Mytilus galloprovincialis

F Impellitteri, K Yunko, V Martyniuk, T Matskiv… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Caffeine (Caff) is one of the most widely used substances in the human diet and a well-
recognized drug. Its input into surface waters is remarkable, but biological effects on aquatic …

Effects of plastic particles on aquatic invertebrates and fish–a review

N Hodkovicova, A Hollerova, Z Svobodova… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
This review summarises the current knowledge on the effects of microplastics and their
additives on organisms living in the aquatic environment, particularly invertebrates and fish …

Microplastics in polar regions: an early warning to the world's pristine ecosystem

AK Mishra, J Singh, PP Mishra - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The menace of plastic which is polluting the ocean has emerged as a global problem. It is
well-known to everyone that the ultimate end for most of the plastic debris is the ocean. The …

Microplastic contamination is ubiquitous in riparian soils and strongly related to elevation, precipitation and population density

Y Zhou, G He, X Jiang, L Yao, L Ouyang, X Liu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Although environmental research has recently begun to focus on the ubiquity of
microplastics in terrestrial systems, there is still lack of comprehensive data which describe …

Distribution characteristics of microplastics in surface and subsurface Antarctic seawater

S Zhang, W Zhang, M Ju, L Qu, X Chu, C Huo… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics have attracted worldwide attention due to their potential threat to the marine
ecosystem, with such pollutants even detected in the polar seas. Although in-depth research …