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Ecological Impacts of Emerging Pollutants in the Event of Climate Change

2025

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This review examined how climate change amplifies the ecological impacts of emerging pollutants including microplastics, nanomaterials, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals by altering environmental transport, bioavailability, and organism vulnerability. The intersection of plastic pollution and climate stress creates compounding threats to ecosystem resilience and human health that cannot be adequately addressed by either issue in isolation.

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Emerging pollutants such as microplastics, nanomaterials, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, personal care products (PCPs), and medications seriously threaten the ecological systems around the world. Climate change can enhance these risks since it is associated with...

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