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ClearEditorial: 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: 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: 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: 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.
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: 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: Using Ecological Models to Support and Shape Environmental Policy Decisions
This editorial introduces a special journal collection on using ecological models to guide environmental policy, covering a range of marine and coastal ecosystems. Ecological models are increasingly used to predict how pollutants including microplastics move through and affect marine food webs.
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.
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.
Editorial: Advances in the monitoring and assessment of marine microplastic contamination
This editorial reviews advances in monitoring and assessing marine microplastic contamination, with particular focus on quality assurance and quality control challenges including contamination from field sampling equipment and the need for standardized detection and quantification limits. The authors emphasize that minimizing extraneous plastic contamination during sample collection itself is as important as post-collection data correction measures.
Sediment pollution in coastal and marine environments
This editorial reviews studies on sediment pollution in coastal and marine environments, covering topics from heavy metal contamination to microplastic accumulation. The research highlights how human activities are degrading coastal sediments and threatening marine ecosystems. The findings emphasize the urgent need for better monitoring and management of pollutants, including microplastics, in these sensitive environments.
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.
Water Quality Assessment of River Basins: New Insights and Practical Solutions
This editorial introduces a collection of studies focused on assessing and improving water quality in river basins around the world. The authors highlight that human activities and environmental changes have severely compromised freshwater resources, posing risks to ecosystems and public health. The collection addresses emerging contaminants, including microplastics, and explores practical monitoring and remediation solutions.
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 and microplastics, effects on marine coastal areas: a review
This review examines how plastics and microplastics impact coastal marine ecosystems, covering their entry pathways, degradation under environmental conditions, and ecological effects on marine organisms.
Editorial: Inorganic and organic pollutants in marine and coastal environments
This editorial introduces a special journal issue on inorganic and organic pollutants in marine and coastal environments. No primary research findings are included in this entry.
Editorial: Effects of microplastics on soil ecosystems
This editorial introduces a research collection on the effects of microplastics on soil ecosystems, summarising current understanding of how microplastic particles originating from synthetic fibres, microbeads, and fragmented debris accumulate in soils and affect microbial communities, plant growth, soil structure, and water retention. The editorial highlights the importance of soil microbial communities as a key target for assessing the ecosystem-level consequences of microplastic contamination.
Assessing the Impact of Microplastic Pollution on Coastal Ecosystems: a Multidimensional Environmental Approach
This review presents a comprehensive multidimensional analysis of microplastic pollution in coastal ecosystems, covering sources, distribution pathways, ecological effects on marine organisms, and implications for environmental management. The authors draw on recent interdisciplinary research to assess how microplastics infiltrate nearly every ecological compartment from coastal waters to ocean sediments and interact with biological and chemical systems.
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.
Editorial: From micro to macro: interactions of marine biota with plastic pollution
Researchers compiled findings from multiple global studies on marine organisms interacting with plastic pollution — spanning filter-feeding mussels and barnacles, stranded sperm whales, and demersal fish — highlighting species-specific plastic ingestion patterns and the potential of certain organisms to serve as pollution bioindicators.
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: Microplastics in water and potential impacts on human health
This editorial introduces a special issue on microplastics in water and their potential impacts on human health, reviewing the state of knowledge and key unanswered questions in the field.
Editorial: Effects of microplastics on ecosystem functioning of eukaryotic marine microbes
This editorial introduces a research collection examining the effects of microplastics on the ecosystem functioning of eukaryotic marine microbes, highlighting key findings on how plastic particles disrupt microbial community structure and biogeochemical processes. The collection synthesizes emerging evidence on microplastic impacts on marine protists, microalgae, and other eukaryotic microorganisms that underpin ocean ecosystem functions.
Special Issue on Aquatic Animal Health in Vulnerable Environments
This is an editorial introduction to a special journal issue on aquatic animal health in vulnerable environments; it is not a primary microplastics research paper, though microplastics may be among the threats discussed.