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ClearRecent Research Advances on Heavy Metals, Microplastics, Persistent Organic Pollutants, and Solid Waste in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems
This review examines recent research advances on heavy metals, microplastics, persistent organic pollutants, and solid waste in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, synthesizing findings published in a Frontiers research topic. The collection covers contamination sources, environmental fate, biological effects, and remediation strategies across diverse global ecosystems.
Editorial: Recent advances in volatile organic compounds, heavy metals, microplastics, and solid wastes in ecosystems
This editorial introduces a research collection on recent advances in understanding volatile organic compounds, heavy metals, microplastics, and solid wastes in ecosystems, highlighting the persistence, bioaccumulation potential, and complex transformations shared by these pollutant classes.
Editorial: Emerging contaminants and aquatic ecosystem health
This editorial introduces a research collection on emerging contaminants and aquatic ecosystem health, highlighting the vulnerability of aquatic systems to pollutants including microplastics and the ecological and human health implications of contamination.
Editorial: Marine Pollution - Emerging Issues and Challenges
This editorial introduces a research collection on emerging marine pollution issues, covering microplastics, chemical contaminants, and their biological impacts, and highlights the need for interdisciplinary approaches to address the growing diversity and geographic spread of pollutants entering ocean ecosystems.
Editorial: Impacts of emerging contaminants and their ecotoxicological consequences
This editorial introduces a research topic examining how emerging contaminants in aquatic ecosystems harm wildlife and disrupt ecosystems, especially when multiple stressors combine. The collection covers ten studies on contaminants including microplastics and their ecotoxicological effects at environmentally relevant concentrations.
Editorial: Legacy & emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment—bridging knowledge, policy, and future
This editorial introduces a research collection bridging knowledge, policy, and future directions on legacy and emerging aquatic contaminants, addressing how persistent pollutants such as PCBs, DDT, mercury, and microplastics coexist and interact in water bodies despite regulatory action. The collection calls for integrated monitoring frameworks that account for mixture toxicity and the persistence of banned substances in sediments and biota.
Sources, Risks, and Remediation Technologies of Pollutants in Aquatic Environments
This editorial introduces a special issue focused on pollutants in aquatic environments, covering their sources, ecological risks, and cleanup technologies. The collection addresses contamination from industrial wastewater, agricultural runoff, and urban sewage, including emerging pollutants like microplastics. The work highlights the need for continued research into effective remediation strategies to protect water quality and aquatic ecosystems.
Advancements in Biomonitoring and Remediation Treatments of Pollutants in Aquatic Environments, 2nd Edition
Not relevant to microplastics — this is an editorial introduction to a special journal issue on biomonitoring and bioremediation of aquatic pollutants broadly, covering toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and biological contaminants rather than focusing specifically on microplastics research.
Editorial: Biogeochemical behavior and biological response of environmental contaminants
This editorial introduces a research collection on the biogeochemical behavior of environmental contaminants including microplastics and their biological effects on aquatic organisms. Understanding how contaminants cycle through ecosystems is essential for assessing human exposure and health risks.
Editorial: Xenobiotics and emerging contaminants in ecosystems: innovative geo-microbial strategies for prevention, efficient clean-up and biosafety
This editorial introduces a special journal section on xenobiotics and emerging contaminants in ecosystems, summarizing innovative geochemical and monitoring approaches for tracking organic pollutants, heavy metals, and microplastics across terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Editorial: Microbial response to emerging contaminants in soil and sediment ecosystems
This editorial introduces a research collection on microbial responses to emerging contaminants — including microplastics, antibiotics, and heavy metals — in soil and sediment ecosystems. Researchers highlight the importance of understanding how these contaminants interact to alter microbial community diversity, function, and ecological balance in terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Feature Papers in Ecotoxicology
This editorial introduces a collection of feature papers in ecotoxicology, reflecting on the discipline's evolution as a key scientific field for assessing the impacts of both traditional and emerging contaminants — including microplastics — on ecosystems. The collection highlights recent advances and emerging challenges in evaluating pollutant effects across biological and environmental systems.
Pollution Annual Volume 2024
This volume compiled peer-reviewed pollution research published in 2024, covering microplastics, heavy metals, air quality, and soil contamination, synthesizing annual advances in environmental pollution science.
Environmental Toxicology and Human Health
This editorial introduces a research collection focused on environmental toxicology and human health, covering contaminants including heavy metals, pesticides, nanoparticles, and micro-nanoplastics. The collection aims to present findings on how daily exposure to environmental pollutants may contribute to adverse health outcomes and to advance risk assessment methods.
Microplastics in Surface Waters: A Critical Review of Emerging Challenges and Future Perspectives
This review examines microplastic contamination across aquatic environments, covering detection technologies, ecological risks from ingestion by wildlife and transfer through food webs, and how microplastics serve as vectors for pesticides, heavy metals, and chemical pollutants.
Editorial: Emerging challenges and solutions for plastic pollution
This editorial introduces a special journal section on emerging challenges and solutions for plastic pollution in marine environments, summarizing the research themes covered in the collection. The collection addresses both the science of plastic contamination and practical approaches to reducing its environmental and health impacts.
Editorial: (Micro)Plastics and the environment
This editorial introduces a research focus on microplastics and plastics in aquatic environments, highlighting gaps in knowledge about their abundance and toxicity especially in freshwater systems. It calls for more research to establish the extent and consequences of plastic pollution beyond the well-studied marine environment.
An insight into the ecological risks and mitigation of heavy metal pollution in aquatic sediments and marine ecosystems
This review examines heavy metal pollution in aquatic sediments and marine ecosystems, covering contamination sources, ecological risks, and mitigation strategies. The study highlights the deterioration of aquatic zones due to rising pollution from urbanization and industrialization, and discusses how pollutants including microplastics interact with heavy metals to affect biogeochemical cycling and the food chain.
Editorial: Environmental pollutants in agroecosystem: toxicity, mechanism, and remediation
This editorial introduces a research collection on environmental pollutants in agroecosystems, summarizing contributions examining the toxicity, mechanisms of action, and remediation strategies for pollutants affecting plant-soil-water systems including heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging contaminants.
Pollution Annual Volume 2024
This edited collection covers global pollution issues including microplastics, water contamination, and sustainable remediation approaches. It is intended as a reference for researchers, policymakers, and others seeking a broad understanding of pollution sources, impacts, and solutions.
Editorial: Environmental remediation strategies of new and emerging chemical contaminants
This editorial introduces a special issue on remediation strategies for emerging chemical contaminants, including microplastics, antibiotics, and specialty chemicals. These persistent pollutants accumulate in soil and water and require advanced clean-up approaches as their environmental presence grows.
Microplastics as Silent Invaders: A Multiscale Review of their Toxicological Effects and Contaminant Interactions in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments
This multiscale review evaluated the toxicological effects of microplastics at molecular, cellular, and ecosystem levels in both terrestrial and aquatic environments. Special emphasis was placed on microplastics as vectors for heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, and pharmaceuticals, which amplify their toxicity beyond direct physical effects.
Special Issue on “Insights on Ecotoxicological Effects of Anthropogenic Contaminants in Aquatic Organisms”
This special issue explores ecotoxicological effects of anthropogenic contaminants in aquatic organisms, covering a range of pollutants including metals and microplastics that have accumulated in aquatic environments since the industrial revolution.
A review: Research progress on microplastic pollutants in aquatic environments
This review summarizes current research on microplastic pollution in aquatic environments, including sources, detection methods, and ecological effects. The study highlights that microplastics can carry heavy metals and organic pollutants, forming complex contaminant combinations that accumulate through the food chain with potentially unpredictable consequences for both aquatic life and human health.