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ClearOpen hardware: From DIY trend to global transformation in access to laboratory equipment
This essay examines the growing global adoption of open-source hardware in biology laboratories, particularly in countries with limited research funding. Researchers found that open hardware reduces dependence on commercial imports and enables local production of lab equipment through digital fabrication. The study highlights how open sharing and detailed documentation are driving a transformation in scientific technology access worldwide.
Open, reproducible hardware for microscopy
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a scientific instrumentation article advocating for open, reproducible hardware designs in microscopy to improve transparency and replicability in experimental science.
Ocean science, data, and services for the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
This review examined how ocean science, data, and services can support achievement of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 14 on life below water and its connections to the remaining 16 SDGs. The authors argue that the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development is essential for achieving sustainable ocean stewardship.
Water and the UN sustainable development goals
This editorial calls for contributions to a special journal collection on water and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It is a short editorial notice rather than a research article.
Systems Thinking Research in Science and Sustainability Education: A Theoretical Note
This theoretical review examined systems thinking in science and sustainability education, critically analyzing the contradictions within sustainable development education and arguing that truly transformative environmental education must challenge anthropocentric assumptions embedded in SDG frameworks.
Sustainable Development Goals and Analytical Chemistry
This review examines the role analytical chemistry plays in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting how chemical measurement and monitoring underpin progress in water quality, food safety, environmental protection, and health. The authors argue for greater integration of analytical science into SDG frameworks and policy.
No App is an Island: Collective Action and Sustainable Development Goal-Sensitive Design.
This paper argues that software applications must be designed not in isolation but as part of broader socio-technical ecosystems, proposing a design framework that incorporates UN Sustainable Development Goals as explicit engineering requirements for complex digital systems.
Digital innovation in citizen science to enhance water quality monitoring in developing countries
This study examines how digital innovation and citizen science can be combined to enhance water quality monitoring in developing countries, particularly in relation to Sustainable Development Goal 6.3.2. The authors investigate technology-enabled participatory monitoring frameworks as cost-effective strategies for improving freshwater system data collection in resource-limited settings.
Advancement of Materials to Sustainable & Green World
Not relevant to microplastics — this is an editorial commentary from the International Association for Advanced Materials on sustainable materials science and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Assessing the global ocean science community: understanding international collaboration, concerns and the current state of ocean basin research
Researchers analyzed 20 years of ocean science publications and found that while Atlantic research has historically dominated, Pacific research is rapidly catching up driven by Chinese output, international collaboration is growing but remains largely domestic, and sub-Saharan Africa lags far behind other regions in ocean research capacity.
Research trend of bivalves aquaculture in Southeast Asia during two decades based on bibliometric analysis in supporting 14
Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of bivalve aquaculture research in Southeast Asia from 2005 to 2025, mapping research trends, focal species, and publication patterns across the region that hosts exceptional marine bivalve biodiversity. The analysis identified key research gaps and trajectory shifts relevant to supporting sustainable development goal 14 on life below water.
A panoramic view and swot analysis of artificial intelligence for achieving the sustainable development goals by 2030: progress and prospects
Researchers conducted a comprehensive SWOT analysis of artificial intelligence applications across all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, identifying AI's strongest contributions in health, climate, and resource management while flagging persistent threats including bias, unequal access, and the risk that AI-driven growth accelerates the environmental harms it is meant to mitigate.
Developing International Collaboration Indicators in Fisheries Remote Sensing Research to Achieve SDG 14 and 17
This paper is not relevant to microplastics research — it develops indicators for assessing international collaboration in fisheries remote sensing research.
The contributions of citizen science to SDG monitoring and reporting on marine plastics
This study demonstrated how citizen science data from Ghana was used to contribute to UN Sustainable Development Goal monitoring related to marine plastic litter, providing the first evidence of citizen science data being formally applied to SDG reporting on ocean plastics. The findings suggest citizen science could become a scalable data source for tracking marine plastic pollution globally.
A Response to Scientific and Societal Needs for Marine Biological Observations
This paper outlines plans for expanding global ocean observing systems to better track biological variables, including automated data collection and open data sharing. It provides context for future monitoring of marine organisms affected by microplastic pollution.
Biology in the 21st-Century: Transformation in biology science and education in supporting the sustainable development goals
This literature review examines how "New Biology" - the integration of biology with data science, engineering, and sustainability science - can contribute to achieving multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals including zero hunger, clean water, and good health. The study is relevant to microplastics research as it highlights how interdisciplinary biological sciences are increasingly needed to address environmental pollution and its health consequences.
Environmental health science research: opportunities and challenges for some developing countries in Africa
This systematic review examines the challenges and opportunities in environmental health research across African countries. While broader than microplastics alone, the findings highlight that developing nations face significant gaps in monitoring pollutants, including plastic contamination, which means health risks may be underestimated in regions with less research infrastructure.
How to strengthen societal impact of research and innovation? Lessons learned from assessing participatory knowledge infrastructures funded by the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development
This paper is not about microplastics; it evaluates participatory knowledge infrastructures in Dutch public health research and innovation to identify lessons for strengthening societal impact.
Climate change: Does international research fulfill global demands and necessities?
Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of global climate change research output, finding that the countries publishing the most scientific papers — led by the US, UK, and China — are often not the most vulnerable to climate impacts, while developing nations facing the greatest risks produce little research. The study reveals a significant gap between where climate science is produced and where it is most urgently needed.
The sustainable development goals in two sustainable development reserves in central amazon: achievements and challenges
Researchers evaluated progress toward the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals in two protected reserves in the Central Amazon, where traditional communities have lived for generations. Despite significant achievements over 20 years of research, the study found persistent challenges — particularly in connecting global goals to the realities of rural Amazonian life.
Chemistry’s Role in Malaysia Sustainable Development Progress
This brief review summarises chemistry's role in Malaysia's progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, drawing on a special topic article published in Pure and Applied Chemistry. The piece serves as an overview pointing readers to deeper reference material on Malaysian sustainable development contributions across chemistry-related SDG targets.
Where are Brazil's marine litter scientific data?
This review examined data repositories for marine litter datasets from Brazil, finding only two datasets in generalist repositories that fail to meet FAIR data-sharing principles and identifying interoperability as the primary obstacle, while calling for purpose-built repositories and researcher behavioral shifts during the UN Decade of Ocean Science.
A critical review on sustainable hazardous waste management strategies: a step towards a circular economy
Researchers review global strategies for managing hazardous industrial and household waste — including chemicals, heavy metals, and electronic waste — with a focus on aligning disposal practices with circular economy principles that minimize environmental and health harm. The review finds that prevention, recycling, and advanced treatment technologies must work together, guided by stronger international policy frameworks.
Tropical marine sciences: Knowledge production in a web of path dependencies
A scientometric analysis of tropical marine science publications found that research is dominated by wealthy-country scientists studying other regions, creating a path-dependent system that may overlook local knowledge and priorities. Equitable research practices are important for addressing global challenges like microplastic pollution that disproportionately affect tropical coastal communities.