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ClearEditorial: Advances in marine environmental protection: challenges, solutions and perspectives
This editorial summarizes current challenges in marine environmental protection, including plastic pollution, climate change, and emerging threats like deep-sea mining. Ocean health is directly linked to human well-being, especially for coastal communities that depend on marine resources. The piece calls for stronger international cooperation to address pollution that crosses national boundaries.
Saving our oceans: Why marine life needs us
This review examined the major threats to marine ecosystems including overfishing, pollution, climate change, and habitat destruction, and argued that protecting ocean biodiversity is essential for the ecosystem services that billions of people depend on for food, oxygen, and climate stability.
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.
Oceanic pollution; A threat to life
This brief overview discusses multiple forms of ocean pollution, including plastic debris, and their threats to marine ecosystems. The author calls for urgent global action to prevent further degradation of ocean health.
Trends and Evolution in the Concept of Marine Ecosystem Services: An Overview
This overview reviews the evolution of the marine ecosystem services concept, examining how human activities increasingly pressure ocean environments. Researchers found that pollution, including plastic and microplastic contamination, is among the growing threats to the marine ecosystem services that support food production, climate regulation, and coastal protection. The study emphasizes the need for effective management strategies to balance human use with ocean health.
A Review of Microplastics and Their Impact on Ocean Ecosystems
This review examined the impact of microplastics on ocean ecosystems, covering distribution from surface to deep sea, ingestion by marine organisms across the food web, and effects on ocean chemistry and biological productivity. It found pervasive contamination with cascading ecosystem-level consequences.
Editorial: Solving Complex Ocean Challenges Through Interdisciplinary Research: Advances from Early Career Marine Scientists
This editorial introduces a research collection addressing complex ocean and coastal challenges through interdisciplinary approaches developed by early career marine scientists, emphasizing that accelerating anthropogenic impacts on marine biodiversity and ecosystem function require solutions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. The collection highlights the growing recognition that effective ocean conservation requires integration of natural and social sciences.
Re-thinking human interactions with the oceans
This review examines the interconnected ways human activities are damaging marine ecosystems, including through chemical and microbial pollution, harmful algal blooms, and loss of biodiversity. The authors argue that despite international agreements and treaties, ocean-related risks continue to escalate due to a lack of political commitment. The study calls for new integrated approaches to balance human wellbeing with ocean sustainability.
Past and Future Grand Challenges in Marine Ecosystem Ecology
This review evaluated progress on eight grand challenges in marine ecosystem ecology identified in 2014 by the Frontiers in Marine Science journal, analyzing 370 papers published since then across topics including biodiversity, climate change, and pollution. The authors identified emerging priorities for the field, including microplastic pollution and its interactions with marine food webs.
Impact of microplastic pollution on the ocean and marine animals: A comprehensive review
This comprehensive review synthesized evidence on how microplastic pollution affects ocean health and marine animals, covering ingestion, entanglement, chemical toxicity, and ecosystem-level impacts. It found pervasive harm across marine food webs and called for urgent global reduction measures.
Marine microplastics
This review discusses the devastating effects of marine microplastics on ocean ecosystems, covering physical harm to organisms, chemical contamination, and ecological disruption across trophic levels. It serves as an accessible summary for communicating the scale and severity of the marine microplastic pollution problem.
Scientists' perspectives on global ocean research priorities
An international survey of ocean scientists identified global research priorities for understanding and managing ocean health, with plastic pollution emerging as one of the top concerns alongside climate change and biodiversity loss. The results reflect the scientific community's assessment of where investment is most urgently needed to sustain healthy ocean ecosystems.
Editorial: Sustainable Development Goal 14 - Life Below Water: Towards a Sustainable Ocean
This editorial introduces a research collection focused on UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water), framing ocean science priorities for the UN Decade of Ocean Science (2021-2030) and calling for integrated research addressing plastic pollution, climate change, and ecosystem management.
Editorial: Impact of marine debris on marine ecosystems and organisms
This editorial highlights the growing threat of marine debris — particularly microplastics — to ocean ecosystems, noting that microplastic concentrations in marine sediments and animal digestive tracts are rising and projecting a 58% increase in ocean microplastics by 2050 from 2020 levels.
Organic pollutants in deep sea: Occurrence, fate, and ecological implications
This review synthesized data on organic pollutants in the deep sea, finding that persistent contaminants including microplastics and their sorbed chemicals reach depths exceeding 10,000 meters through particle sinking, water mass transport, and biological vectors, threatening poorly understood but ecologically vital deep-sea ecosystems.
Global Ocean Governance and Ecological Civilization
This study examines global ocean governance frameworks and argues that achieving 'ecological civilization' requires coordinated international responses to mounting threats including climate change, ocean acidification, microplastic pollution, and overexploitation of marine resources.
Global Changes, Anthropogenic Impacts and the Future of the Oceans
This review covers multiple human-caused threats to ocean health, including pollution by mercury, lead, and plastics, as well as ocean acidification and deoxygenation. The discussion of plastic pollution highlights how microplastics compound other ongoing threats to marine ecosystems.
A Comprehensive Review of Climatic Threats and Adaptation of Marine Biodiversity
This comprehensive review examines how climate change threatens marine biodiversity through rising ocean temperatures, acidification, and habitat loss. Among the many environmental stressors discussed, microplastic pollution is highlighted as an additional threat that compounds the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems. The paper evaluates adaptation strategies like marine protected areas and habitat restoration that could help protect the ocean ecosystems humans depend on for food.
Navigating the Future V: Marine Science for a Sustainable Future
This marine science vision document identifies key research priorities for 2030 and beyond, including deep-sea ecosystems, climate change impacts, and emerging contaminants like microplastics. It provides a roadmap for prioritizing ocean research investments.
Challenges in coastal ecosystem Sustainability: Drivers of water quality degradation and their ecological impact
This review examines multiple drivers of water quality degradation in coastal ecosystems—including nutrient pollution, sedimentation, microplastics, and climate change—and discusses management strategies for improving coastal ecosystem sustainability.
Unravelling the Waves: Navigating Microplastics Pollution in the Marine Realm and Crafting Remedial Solutions
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in marine environments, covering prevalence, persistence, ecological impacts, and remediation solutions. The authors assess current mitigation approaches and highlight the need for integrated policy, improved monitoring, and technological innovation to address the growing threat to ocean health.
Understanding microplastic pollution of marine ecosystem: a review
This review summarizes the current understanding of microplastic pollution in oceans, covering where they come from, how they spread, and their harmful effects on marine life and potentially human health. Microplastics are found throughout the ocean -- from surface waters to deep sediments -- and can transfer toxic chemicals to organisms that consume them. The authors highlight that significant gaps remain in detection methods and understanding the full scope of how marine microplastics affect the food chain that leads to our plates.
The Effects of Ocean Plastic Pollution on Marine Ecology
This review describes how plastic waste accumulates in the oceans, breaks down into microplastics under sunlight and saltwater, and enters food chains as fish and shellfish mistake particles for food. It summarises the scale of the problem — plastic makes up roughly 70% of ocean pollutants and is linked to the deaths of millions of seabirds and marine animals annually. The paper serves as a broad overview of how ocean plastic pollution threatens marine ecology and, through seafood consumption, human health.
Editorial: Endocrine disruption in marine species: unraveling pollution and climate change effects
This editorial introduces research on how microplastics, heavy metals, and climate-driven stressors like ocean warming disrupt hormonal function in marine animals. These endocrine disruptions can affect reproduction, behavior, and survival, with broader consequences for marine food webs.