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ClearMicroplastics and their Impact on the Marine Environment
This review examines how plastic debris in the ocean degrades into microplastics and affects marine ecosystems. The authors discuss how surface plastics reduce heat absorption and how degrading plastics release greenhouse gases, potentially contributing to climate change. The review also highlights the role of ocean plastic in altering marine food webs and threatening biodiversity.
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.
Research progress in ecotoxicology of climate change coupled with marine pollutions
This review examined how rising ocean temperatures and acidification from climate change interact with marine pollutants including microplastics, finding that combined stressors often produce worse effects than either alone. The research underscores that plastic pollution cannot be addressed in isolation from the broader context of global climate change.
Micro Plastics in The Marine Environment: A Review of Their Effects on Marine Organisms and Ecosystems
This review examines the effects of microplastics on marine organisms and ecosystems, summarizing evidence for MP ingestion across trophic levels, physical and chemical harm to marine life, and the pathways through which marine MP pollution threatens biodiversity and fisheries.
Climate change and microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems: ecological and societal consequences
This review examines how climate change amplifies the ecological and societal impacts of microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems. The study suggests that rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and altered precipitation patterns accelerate plastic fragmentation and dispersal, creating compounding effects on water quality, biodiversity, and coastal communities.
Impacts of plastic pollution in the oceans on marine species, biodiversity and ecosystems
This comprehensive report documented the extensive impacts of plastic pollution on marine species, biodiversity, and ecosystems worldwide, revealing a rapidly worsening situation that demands immediate international action to protect ocean health.
Impacts of Climate Change: Can Fisheries and Aquaculture Sectors Survive the Wave?
This review assesses both short- and long-term impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture, including shifts in species distribution, productivity, and community resilience. While not focused on microplastics, the study addresses the dual pressures plastic pollution and climate change place on marine food systems.
Research progress on the interaction between climate change and marine microplastic pollution
This review examines the two-way relationship between climate change and marine microplastic pollution, finding that rising ocean temperatures, acidification, and hypoxia can accelerate plastic fragmentation and alter how microplastics are distributed and ingested by marine life. Conversely, microplastics may affect carbon cycling and plankton productivity in ways that feed back into climate dynamics. The findings highlight that microplastic risks cannot be assessed in isolation from the broader context of a changing ocean.
Interaction of Plastics with Marine Species
This review summarizes how plastic and microplastic pollution harms a wide range of marine species through ingestion, entanglement, and chemical toxicity, and how plastics interact with other pollutants in the ocean. The evidence points to plastic pollution as one of the most serious threats to marine biodiversity worldwide.
Assessment of Microplastic Impacts in the Marine Environment: A Review
This review summarizes the sources, environmental fate, and ecological impacts of microplastics in marine environments, covering impacts across food webs from phytoplankton to marine mammals. The authors identify key knowledge gaps and emphasize that biodiversity loss and food chain contamination are the most well-documented marine impacts. The review calls for integrated monitoring programs and international policy action to reduce plastic inputs to the ocean.
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.
The detrimental impact of microplastics on the Marine Environment and potential remediation strategies.
This review analyzes the detrimental impacts of microplastics on marine environments, summarizing documented hazards to marine life and ecosystems from historical and recent research, and evaluates several representative remediation strategies for addressing microplastic contamination. The authors found that microplastics interfere broadly with marine organism physiology and food web dynamics, and that current treatment approaches — including filtration, photocatalysis, and biological degradation — each carry limitations requiring further development for large-scale application.
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.
Plastic pollution in the marine environment
This review provides a comprehensive overview of plastic pollution in coastal and marine environments, covering everything from how plastics enter the ocean to their effects on marine life. Researchers compiled global data showing microplastic concentrations ranging widely across different water bodies and sediments, with marine organisms accumulating significant amounts. The study underscores that plastic pollution causes ecological damage through entanglement, ingestion toxicity, and the transport of invasive species.
Plastic Pollution and Its Impact on Biodiversity
This review examines the relationship between plastic pollution and biodiversity loss, analyzing how microplastics degrade natural habitats, disrupt ecosystems, and threaten species survival, drawing on scientific literature to assess the sources, forms, and ecological impacts of plastic contamination across terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Theoretical Review on Microplastic Pollution: A Multifaceted Threat to Marine Ecosystems, Human Health, and Environment
This review provides a broad overview of how microplastic pollution threatens marine ecosystems and human health through multiple pathways including seafood consumption, drinking water, and air inhalation. Researchers summarized evidence that microplastics cause physical harm to marine species, transport toxic chemicals through food webs, and may be linked to inflammatory and hormonal disruption in humans. The study emphasizes that addressing this problem requires coordinated policy changes, better waste management, and development of biodegradable plastic alternatives.
Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Sources, Fates, Impacts and Microbial Degradation
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in marine environments, covering their sources, distribution, and impacts on ocean life. Researchers found that microplastics are ingested by marine organisms at all levels of the food chain, potentially affecting both wildlife health and human food safety. The study also explores the promising role of marine bacteria that can break down certain plastics as a potential solution to this pollution crisis.
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 Review on the Impact of Plastic Debris on Marine Environment
This review summarizes the types, sources, and impacts of plastic debris in marine environments, covering both macro- and microplastics and their effects on marine biodiversity. The paper also discusses global initiatives and policy frameworks aimed at reducing marine plastic pollution.
Navigating the nexus: climate dynamics and microplastics pollution in coastal ecosystems
This review examines how climate change and microplastic pollution interact in coastal ecosystems, finding that rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and stronger storms are spreading microplastics further and faster into marine environments. These climate-driven changes also accelerate plastic breakdown into smaller, more dangerous particles that are more easily absorbed by marine life. The combination of worsening climate conditions and increasing plastic pollution poses a growing threat to both coastal ecosystems and the millions of people who depend on them for food.
Future importance of healthy oceans: Ecosystem functions and biodiversity, marine pollution, carbon sequestration, ecosystem goods and services
This review examines the health of the Bay of Bengal large marine ecosystem, identifying climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss as major threats. Microplastic pollution is among the chemical threats identified, with serious implications for fisheries that support hundreds of millions of people in South and Southeast Asia.
Microplastics and biodiversity: A comprehensive analysis of their ecological impact
This comprehensive analysis examined the ecological impacts of microplastics on biodiversity, reviewing evidence of harm to species across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems. The review found widespread negative effects on reproduction, behavior, and survival that threaten biodiversity at multiple levels.
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.
The Potential Impact of Climate Change on the Diffusion of Plastic Waste in the Ocean
This study reviewed how climate change directly impacts the marine environment - through rising temperatures, altered ocean circulation, and acidification - in ways that affect the spread of plastic waste. Changes in ocean currents, extreme weather events, and sea level rise were found to redistribute plastic debris and accelerate fragmentation into microplastics.