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ClearMicroplastics: Current Status in the Environment and Human Health Risks: A Comprehensive Review
This comprehensive review covers the sources, environmental distribution, food chain entry, and human health risks of microplastics, with particular attention to their role as vectors for chemical pollutants and pathogens. It highlights regulatory gaps and emerging mitigation approaches across terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric systems.
Unveiling the complex impact of microplastics on environmental health, ecosystems, and humans
This comprehensive review consolidates current knowledge on microplastic pollution across marine, freshwater, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments. Researchers examined sources, transport pathways, impacts on living organisms, sampling techniques, and regulatory challenges, highlighting significant gaps in understanding the full scope of microplastic effects on ecosystems and human well-being.
Environmental distribution, transport and ecotoxicity of microplastics: A review
This review covers the environmental distribution and transport of microplastics across marine, freshwater, soil, and atmospheric compartments, and analyzes their toxicity to organisms at different trophic levels including potential effects on human health.
Microplastic pollution: Sources, fate, impacts and research gaps
This review summarizes the sources, environmental fate, and health impacts of microplastics across oceans, rivers, soils, and polar regions. It highlights that microplastics carry toxic chemicals into ecosystems and can enter the human body through food, water, and air.
Microplastics in Environmental Setting: A Review on Sources, Exposure Routes and Potential Toxicities on Human Health
This review examines microplastics in environmental settings, synthesizing current knowledge on sources, distribution across terrestrial and aquatic compartments, fate processes, and ecological consequences. The authors identify priority research areas needed to address remaining uncertainties in microplastic risk assessment.
Mini review of microplastic pollutions and its impact on the environment and human health
This mini review summarizes the sources, distribution, and environmental impacts of microplastic pollution, highlighting the health risks posed by chemical leaching from microplastics and the need for better reduction strategies.
Microplastic Pollution: Fate, Sources, Transport and Identification
This review summarizes the sources, fate, transport, and identification methods for microplastics in aquatic and terrestrial environments, highlighting their global distribution across all ecosystems and the growing concern for their impacts on marine life, other organisms, and human health.
Source and Route of Microplastics in Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Aquatic Environments, and Effects of Microplastics on Organisms
This review summarizes the sources, transport routes, and ecological effects of microplastics across terrestrial, atmospheric, and aquatic environments, highlighting how trophic transfer through food chains can ultimately lead to human ingestion.
Sources and distributions of microplastics and the hazards to plants, animals and human health:A review.
This review examines the sources, distribution, and health impacts of microplastics on plants, animals, and humans. Researchers found that microplastics enter organisms through multiple exposure pathways and can adsorb heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants due to their large surface area, potentially amplifying adverse effects on metabolism and overall health.
Research progress on the sources and toxicology of micro (nano) plastics in environment
This review covers sources, distribution, and toxicity of micro- and nanoplastics across soil, water, and air, including effects on organisms and human health. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge on environmental microplastic contamination and its consequences.
Current research trends on micro- and nano-plastics as an emerging threat to global environment: A review.
This review summarizes the current knowledge on micro- and nanoplastics as emerging global pollutants, covering their distribution across terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments, their persistence, and the health risks from their chemical additives. It identifies key research gaps in understanding how MNPs move between environmental compartments and accumulate in living organisms.
Microplastics as Emerging Environmental Pollutants: Implications for Ecosystems and Human Health
This comprehensive review documents how microplastics have spread to every environmental compartment on Earth — from ocean floors to mountain air — and synthesizes evidence of harm across species and ecosystems, including physical injury, hormonal disruption, reproductive damage, and chemical toxicity. For humans, microplastics have now been detected in blood, lung tissue, and the placenta, with exposure occurring through food, water, and air. While definitive proof of human disease causation is still accumulating, the review argues the breadth of biological impacts already documented justifies urgent action.
Microplastics: Environmental Presence and Ecological Impact
This review examined the sources, environmental distribution, ecological impacts, and current detection and removal advances for microplastic pollution across marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems. It synthesized the state of knowledge on MP effects on biodiversity, food chains, and human health, and highlighted gaps in remediation technology.
Microplastics: Contaminants of Global Concern in the Anthropocene
This review summarizes the state of knowledge on microplastics as a global contaminant, covering their sources, distribution in different environments, and potential ecological and health effects. It frames microplastics as a defining pollution challenge of the Anthropocene era.
Multiple Effects, Pathways, and Potential Health Risks from Environmental Microplastic Exposure
This review synthesizes nearly two decades of research on the multiple pathways through which environmental microplastics affect human and ecological health, including chemical toxicity, physical impacts, and potential roles as carriers of pathogens and contaminants.
Microplastics in Ecosystem – an Overview
This overview reviews how microplastics—particles smaller than 5 mm—originate from plastic degradation, are found globally in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, can be ingested by animals at multiple trophic levels, and pose risks to human health through chemical leaching and endocrine disruption. It highlights the need for further research on pollution control and mitigation strategies.
Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Global Review of Distribution, Ecotoxicological Impacts, and Human Health Risks
This global review summarizes how microplastics are distributed across freshwater, marine, and polar environments, and examines their ecological and human health impacts. People are exposed through contaminated seafood, water, and air, and research links microplastic exposure to oxidative stress, inflammation, hormone disruption, and possible genetic effects at the cellular level.
Microplastics: Environmental Ubiquity, Biological Fate, and Human Health Implications
This review summarizes the current understanding of microplastics as a growing global contaminant affecting both ecosystems and human health. Researchers note that microplastics can carry harmful compounds and have been found throughout the environment and in the human body, while global regulatory frameworks remain insufficient. The study calls for enhanced monitoring, stricter regulations, and source-reduction strategies to address the long-term risks of microplastic exposure.
Ecotoxicological perspectives of microplastics
This review summarized the ecotoxicological effects of microplastics across aquatic and terrestrial organisms, covering the global scale of plastic production and the chronic harm MPs cause to ecosystems. The paper called for greater research standardization and policy intervention to address the escalating contamination.
Microplastics and Their Impacts on Organisms and Trophic Chains
This review synthesizes current knowledge on microplastic pollution, examining the mechanisms by which microplastics affect organisms at multiple levels of biological organization and how plastic particles transfer through trophic chains, accumulating and potentially magnifying in concentration up the food web. Researchers highlight evidence for physical, chemical, and microbial impacts on organisms ranging from invertebrates to mammals, including humans, and identify priority areas for future ecotoxicological research.