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ClearEditorial: Impacts of Marine Litter
This editorial introduces a special issue on the impacts of marine litter, covering research on plastic debris effects on marine organisms, ecosystems, and human health. It summarizes the state of knowledge and research priorities for addressing marine plastic pollution.
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: Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Sources, Distribution, Biological Effects and Socio-Economic Impacts
This editorial introduces a journal collection on microplastics in the marine environment, summarizing current knowledge about sources, distribution, biological effects, and emerging research directions. It provides a broad overview of the state of the science on marine microplastic pollution.
Editorial: Coastal and marine environmental quality assessments
This is an editorial introducing a journal collection on coastal and marine environmental quality assessments. It provides context for a series of research articles on monitoring and evaluating the health of marine ecosystems, including those affected by plastic pollution.
Plastic Pollution: Challenges and Innovative Solutions
This review examines the multifaceted challenges of plastic pollution and surveys innovative solutions spanning material design, waste management, and remediation technologies. The paper synthesises current research on microplastic sources, environmental persistence, and emerging approaches to reducing plastic releases into ecosystems.
Micro(nano)plastics in Aquatic Environments: State of the Art and Beyond
This editorial introduces a special issue on the state of micro- and nanoplastic pollution in aquatic environments. The collection brings together current research addressing the detection, distribution, and ecological impacts of these tiny plastic particles in water systems worldwide.
Plastics: From a Success Story to an Environmental Problem and a Global Challenge (Global Challenges 6/2020)
This is an editorial introduction to a special journal issue on global plastic pollution challenges, covering microplastic risks to human health and ecological systems. It provides an overview rather than original research findings.
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: 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.
Introduction to “The Trouble with Plastics” special issue
This is an editorial introduction to a special journal issue titled 'The Trouble with Plastics,' framing the collection's themes around plastics' pervasive presence in daily life and their long-term environmental and health consequences. It is a commentary piece rather than a primary research study.
Editorial: Baselines, impacts and mitigation strategies for plastic debris and microplastic pollution in South East Asia
This editorial introduces a research collection on plastic debris and microplastic pollution, discussing the need for standardized baseline measurements, improved impact assessments, and evidence-based mitigation strategies across marine and freshwater environments.
Plastic pollution in marine and freshwater biota
Researchers compiled a special issue reviewing the current science on plastic pollution — including micro- and nanoplastics — in marine and freshwater environments, identifying key gaps in understanding how these particles move through ecosystems and harm aquatic life. The collection aims to support stronger science-based environmental policies addressing plastic pollution in aquatic systems.
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.
Editorial: New Challenges in Marine Pollution Monitoring
This editorial introduces a special collection on marine pollution monitoring, highlighting chemical pollutants, emerging contaminants, and microplastics as growing challenges. It notes that over 100,000 chemicals are on the market with thousands added yearly, making comprehensive ocean monitoring increasingly difficult.
Delineating and preventing plastic waste leakage in the marine and terrestrial environment
Researchers outline the global challenge of plastic waste leaking into marine and land environments, tracing the problem to poor waste management, limited recycling technology, and low public awareness. The commentary calls for upstream design changes and downstream cleanup strategies to reduce plastic litter worldwide.
Editorial: Addressing microplastic contamination: sustainable solutions for resilient food systems
This editorial introduces a special issue on microplastic contamination in food production systems, from agriculture to aquaculture. It frames the challenge of reducing plastic pollution in food supply chains as urgent given both growing global food demand and the widespread use of plastics throughout food industries.
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.
The grand challenges in marine pollution research
This specialty grand challenge article in Frontiers in Marine Science identifies the most pressing research gaps in marine pollution science, calling for greater interdisciplinary collaboration to address complex pollution problems including microplastics. It is an editorial perspective rather than original research.
Editorial: Bridging the Gap between Policy and Science in Assessing the Health Status of Marine Ecosystems
This editorial introduces a research collection focused on bridging the gap between policy and science in assessing health impacts of environmental contaminants including microplastics. It highlights the need for better integration of scientific evidence into regulatory and public health decision-making frameworks.
Marine Litter: Solutions for a Major Environmental Problem
This paper reviews the sources, distribution, and impacts of marine litter — primarily plastics — on beaches and oceans, and surveys proposed solutions ranging from improved waste management to policy interventions and cleanup technologies. It provides a broad overview of the challenge of reducing plastic pollution at a global scale.
Mitigation measures to avert the impacts of plastics and microplastics in the marine environment (a review)
This review examines the growing problem of plastic and microplastic pollution in marine environments and evaluates various mitigation strategies. The authors discuss approaches including reducing plastic production, improving waste management, developing biodegradable alternatives, and implementing cleanup technologies. The study emphasizes that a combination of prevention, policy intervention, and innovative solutions is needed to address the scale of marine plastic contamination.
Micro(nano)plastic toxicity and health effects: Special issue guest editorial
Researchers summarized the state of microplastic and nanoplastic toxicology research, noting that while studies in animals show these particles accumulate in tissues and trigger inflammation, oxidative stress, and developmental harm, the actual health risks to humans remain largely unknown and urgently require further investigation.
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.
Can We Find a Way to Solve Microplastic Pollution?
This review examines sources, environmental distribution, ecological impacts, and potential mitigation strategies for microplastic pollution across terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. The authors survey evidence of harm to marine wildlife including seabirds, fish, and sea turtles through ingestion and entanglement, and assess emerging technological and regulatory approaches to reducing global microplastic contamination.