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61,005 resultsProceedings of the International One Health Conference
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a conference proceedings summary for the 2022 International One Health Conference in Catania, Italy, covering interdisciplinary approaches to urban and environmental health management.
Index
This is an index page from a book on microplastic pollution, listing key topics covered including types of plastics, treatment methods, coastal pollution, and analytical techniques. The comprehensive index reflects the broad scope of microplastic research across environmental, health, and technological domains.
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.
A review on effects of microplastics on animal, environment and human health considering One Health perspective
This review examines the effects of microplastics on animal, environmental, and human health from a One Health perspective, highlighting how microplastic contamination interconnects ecological, animal, and human health systems.
Microplastics in Marine Ecosystem
This book addresses microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems including sources, environmental fate, and impacts on marine life and human health, along with future solutions such as bacterial biodegradation, membrane technology, and bioengineered microbes.
Understanding the Interplay between Antimicrobial Resistance, Microplastics and Xenobiotic Contaminants: A Leap towards One Health?
This review examines the interplay between antimicrobial resistance, microplastics, and xenobiotic contaminants in the environment, highlighting how microplastics can serve as vectors for antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes, posing combined threats to ecosystem and human health.
Interactions between microplastics and microbiota in a One Health perspective
This review examines how microplastics interact with microbial communities across human, animal, and environmental settings using a One Health framework. Microplastics disrupt the normal balance of microbiota in the gut, soil, and water, and serve as surfaces where harmful bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes accumulate and spread. The authors argue that understanding these microplastic-microbe interactions across all domains of life is essential for protecting both ecosystem and human health.
Microplastic sources, fate and solution
This book provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic sources, environmental distribution, chemical behavior, and ecological threats, synthesizing current research on this global pollutant.
Microplastic Pollution in the Environment
This book chapter provides an overview of microplastic accumulation in marine and aquatic habitats, describing how plastic particles fragment, distribute across environmental compartments, and serve as vectors for chemical pollutants and pathogens.
Microplastics in Global Marine Waters and Biota: Effectiveness of Potential Bioindicators in Mirroring Local Pollution Levels
This review assessed the global occurrence of microplastics in marine waters and biota and evaluated the effectiveness of potential bioindicator species for monitoring plastic pollution. The authors find that standardizing bioindicator protocols is essential for tracking the effectiveness of microplastic mitigation efforts.
Global Risks of Microplastics to Ecosystem and Human Health: An Emerging Environmental Disaster
This review characterizes microplastic contamination as an emerging environmental disaster, summarizing its negative impacts across multiple levels of biological organization and the environments where research has been most active. The authors call for accelerated scientific and regulatory attention.
Micro(nano)plastics sources, fate, and effects: What we know after ten years of research
Researchers summarized a decade of advances in micro- and nanoplastic (MnP) research, documenting how these particles have been found in every environment on Earth — including air, snow, soil, and human tissue — and in thousands of species, with confirmed harmful effects. The review highlights major breakthroughs in detection methods while noting that the full scope of health impacts, especially at the nano scale, is still being uncovered.
Microplastic Pollution in the Environment
This book chapter provides an overview of microplastic and nanoplastic pollution as emerging environmental contaminants, describing their formation, persistence in the environment, pathways of biological exposure, and potential toxicity to ecosystems and human health.
Microplastics: 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.
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.
Innovations In Environment, Health & Medical Research
This is a broad medical and environmental research textbook covering numerous topics including a chapter on microplastics in food; it is not a focused research study on microplastics but rather a general reference volume spanning many unrelated fields.
Micro- and Nano-Plastics Contaminants in the Environment: Sources, Fate, Toxicity, Detection, Remediation, and Sustainable Perspectives
This review provides a broad overview of micro- and nanoplastic pollution, covering where these particles come from, how they spread through the environment, and the damage they cause to living things including humans. The authors also compare different methods for removing microplastics from the environment, including physical, chemical, and biological approaches. The paper calls for more research and global cooperation to develop better tools for measuring the health risks of plastic pollution.
Nano- and microplastics in the environment : presence, effects and their role as a Trojan horse for other pollutants
This thesis reviews the presence and effects of nano- and microplastics in the environment, examining how they act as carriers for other pollutants and discussing their potential health impacts on ecosystems and humans.
Environmental Exposure to Microplastics
This compiled research volume addressed microplastic pollution from a One Health perspective, synthesizing toxicological studies on exposure pathways and organism-level effects. A central finding across included studies was that microplastics act as vectors for co-pollutants like phthalates and pharmaceuticals, enhancing their bioavailability and combined toxicity in aquatic and human systems.
Microplastics: Holistic overview of source, identification, interaction, health and environmental implications and strategies of abatement
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic sources, identification methods, interactions with other pollutants, and impacts on the environment and human health. Microplastics are now found in virtually every ecosystem and enter the food chain through multiple routes, making them a global pollution crisis that requires urgent research and policy action.
Microplastic Pollution in the Environment
This review examines the ubiquitous presence of microplastics as emerging environmental pollutants across all major environmental compartments, synthesizing data on their sources, fates, and concentrations over time and space to characterize the scale of global contamination.
The ocean and microplastics: a One Health approach
This paper examines ocean microplastic pollution through a One Health framework, connecting marine ecosystem contamination to animal and human health impacts by tracing microplastic pathways from ocean sources through food webs to human exposure. The approach integrates ecological, veterinary, and public health perspectives to argue for a unified response to microplastic pollution as a cross-cutting environmental health challenge.
Microplastic pollution - what have we learned from the last 20 years of research and what are the priorities ahead?
This paper reviewed two decades of microplastic research progress, from the 2004 discovery paper through current knowledge on sources, environmental distribution, and effects. Key findings are that the field has matured substantially, though standardized methodologies and long-term health impact data are still needed.
Microplastics and NanoplasticsOrigin, Fate and Effects
This book chapter provides a broad introduction to micro- and nanoplastics, covering their origin from plastic degradation, their spread through the environment, and their entry into the food chain. The authors highlight that current analytical methods are largely limited to detection, while the full scope of health and ecological effects remains to be determined.