Heavy metals can be enriched in living organisms and seriously endanger human health
and the ecological environment, which has evolved into a significant global environmental …

Abstract Wetlands along the Yellow Sea coast of China, which are a major staging area for
shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, are in a state of crisis that threatens the …

Microplastics may lose buoyancy and occur in deeper waters and ultimately sink to the
sediment and this may threaten plankton inhabiting in various water layers and benthic …

The occurrence of microplastics in the beach sand of the Bohai Sea was investigated for the
first time. The Bohai Sea is the largest Chinese inner sea and its coastal region is one of the …

Systemic insecticides like neonicotinoids and the phenylpyrazole insecticide fipronil are the
most widely applied insecticides around the world. Multiple studies analyzed insecticide …

Abstract The Bohai Sea is one of the most polluted marine areas in China with polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) due to its unique hydrological and geographical …

Abstract Cu, Pb, Zn, Cd, Cr, Hg and As in seawater, sediment and organisms of the Daya
Bay, Guangdong province, China were measured to acquire the comprehensive …

Heavy metals in ocean may accumulate in seafood through food web and pose risks to
human health. This study investigated the occurrence, trophic magnification, and health risks …

China's 13th Five-Year Plan, launched in March 2016, provides a sound policy platform for
the protection of marine ecosystems and the restoration of capture fisheries within China's …

The concentrations of eight heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn) were
measured in the sediment, the isolated microplastics from the sediment and the body wall of …