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ClearIntegrating climate and environmental justice into patient care: A case study
This case study describes a clinical approach to integrating environmental justice and climate change considerations into patient care, highlighting how environmental exposures including microplastics relate to health inequities.
Ecological transition and health: the role of physicians and healthcare
This perspective article examines the role of physicians and healthcare workers in addressing climate change and pollution as major public health threats, including microplastics, PFAS, and fine particulate matter. It argues that the medical community must move beyond disease treatment to advocate for reduced fossil fuel use and sustainable healthcare policies.
Sustainability in Obstetrics and Gynecology
This review examines how the climate crisis disproportionately affects women and pregnant people through exposure to air pollution, extreme heat, and toxic substances. Researchers found that healthcare practices in obstetrics and gynecology, including operating rooms and neonatal units, also contribute to environmental harm through waste generation and carbon emissions. The study proposes strategies for decarbonizing clinical settings while improving health outcomes for vulnerable patient populations.
Climate change and the epithelial barrier theory in allergic diseases: A One Health approach to a green environment
This review links climate change and increased environmental pollution to the weakening of epithelial barriers in the skin, gut, and lungs, contributing to the rise of allergic diseases worldwide. The paper specifically identifies microplastics alongside other pollutants as agents that damage epithelial barriers, suggesting a mechanism by which microplastic exposure could contribute to allergies and autoimmune conditions.
Health psychology and climate change: time to address humanity’s most existential crisis
This paper argues that health psychologists need to actively address climate change because it is fundamentally a health crisis driven by human behavior. While not directly about microplastics, climate change and plastic pollution are closely linked environmental crises, as rising temperatures accelerate plastic breakdown into microplastics in the environment. The authors call for behavioral science expertise to help reduce consumption patterns that drive both greenhouse gas emissions and plastic waste.
Environmentally sustainable critical care: Special issue introduction
This editorial introduces a special issue on environmentally sustainable critical care, highlighting the healthcare sector's significant contribution to climate change, air pollution, and waste generation. The authors discuss how the triple planetary crisis of environmental degradation is both worsened by and harmful to healthcare delivery. The piece calls for urgent action to reduce the environmental footprint of medical care, including addressing single-use plastics and waste management.
Climate Change, Environment, and One Health
This review discusses how climate change drives biodiversity loss, air and water pollution, and the spread of microplastics, collectively increasing the burden of non-communicable diseases and putting pressure on healthcare systems, especially in lower-income countries.
Relationship between climate change and environmental microplastics: a one health vision for the platysphere health
This review examines the two-way relationship between climate change and microplastic pollution: plastic production generates greenhouse gases, while extreme weather events spread microplastics further into the environment. The study uses a One Health framework to argue that addressing microplastic pollution and climate change together is essential for protecting human, animal, and environmental health.
Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis
This paper argues that health psychology must urgently address climate change as humanity's most existential health crisis, highlighting how greenhouse gas emissions drive extreme weather, displacement, food insecurity, and disease disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations.
Climate Change and Adverse Public Health Impacts on Human Health and Water Resources
This review examines how climate change is creating interconnected threats to public health and freshwater resources worldwide. Researchers found that rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events are degrading water quality through increased contamination from pollutants including microplastics. The study highlights the urgent need for integrated strategies that address water management, pollution control, and public health simultaneously.
Cobénéfices santé-environnement : concepts et recommandations pour la pratique clinique
This paper reviews the concepts of health-environment co-benefits within One Health, EcoHealth, and Planetary Health frameworks, providing clinical practice recommendations for healthcare professionals to integrate environmental co-benefit considerations — including reductions in plastic and chemical exposures — into patient counseling and healthcare system decision-making.
Impacts of Air Pollution and Microplastics on Environmental Health in the Era of Climate Change
This research review found that tiny plastic particles called microplastics are now being detected inside human bodies—in our blood, lungs, and digestive systems—while air pollution alone kills about 6.67 million people each year. The study shows these pollutants work together to harm our health, made worse by the fact that we're producing massive amounts of plastic (460 million tons in 2021) but recycling only 9% of it. This matters because it means we're facing multiple pollution threats at once that require urgent action to protect public health.
Emerging Challenges from Plastics-Driven Climate Change and Microplastics
This research review shows that tiny plastic particles in our environment don't just pollute—they also make climate change worse by disrupting ocean systems that normally absorb carbon from the air. Even more concerning, these plastic particles act like magnets for harmful chemicals and germs, then carry them through the environment where they can potentially affect human health. The study reveals that most current cleanup efforts aren't working well because they ignore how plastics, climate change, and toxic contamination work together as one big problem.
Die Bedeutung der Konzepte One Health und Planetary Health für die Umweltmedizin im 21. Jahrhundert
This review examined how One Health and Planetary Health frameworks are essential for 21st-century environmental medicine, emphasizing the interconnected threats from chemical pollutants, microplastics, and climate change to both human and ecosystem health.
Microplastics and Climate Change: Analyzing the Environmental Impact and Mitigation Strategies
This review analyzes the relationship between microplastic pollution and climate change, examining how each phenomenon worsens the other and what mitigation strategies might address both simultaneously. The authors find that warming accelerates plastic fragmentation while microplastics contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, calling for integrated environmental policy responses.
Introducing Health-Climate-Economics and Rapid Viability Test for Candidate Solutions as a Tool for Automated Healthcare Procurement and Evaluation
This paper introduces a health-climate-economics framework for evaluating healthcare procurement decisions that account for climate and health co-benefits. It is not related to microplastics.
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.
Environment and lung health in a rapidly changing world
This editorial highlights the major environmental challenges affecting respiratory health in the 21st century, including climate change and plastic pollution. The authors note that microplastics and nanoplastics in the air represent an emerging concern for lung health that requires urgent research attention. The piece calls for broader action to address environmental threats to respiratory health, particularly for vulnerable and underserved populations.
Immune-mediated disease caused by climate change-associated environmental hazards: mitigation and adaptation
This review examines how climate change-driven events like wildfires, dust storms, and heatwaves increase air pollution and allergen exposure, contributing to rising rates of asthma, autoimmune diseases, and cancer. The paper specifically notes that nanoplastics, alongside other environmental pollutants, can disrupt skin and mucous membrane barriers and alter the microbiome in ways that trigger immune system dysfunction.
Emerging challenges of microplastic impacts to ecological health and climate change
This review examines how microplastics contribute not only to environmental pollution but also to climate change by altering microbial processes, disrupting biogeochemical cycles, and promoting greenhouse gas release. Researchers found that microplastics affect carbon cycling, phytoplankton photosynthesis, and atmospheric processes in ways that may exacerbate global warming. The study highlights significant knowledge gaps in understanding the mechanisms linking microplastic pollution to greenhouse gas emissions.
Microplastics and climate change: the global impacts of a tiny driver
This review explores the connections between microplastic pollution and climate change, two environmental crises that are more intertwined than they might appear. Researchers found that microplastics disrupt ocean carbon sequestration by affecting plankton, may accelerate ice cap melting by reducing surface reflectivity, and can influence greenhouse gas emissions from both water and soil. The study argues that addressing microplastic pollution should be considered an integral part of comprehensive climate change strategies.
Climate change and microplastics: a two-way interaction
This review characterises the bidirectional relationship between microplastics and climate change: plastics production and degradation generate greenhouse gases, while rising temperatures and changing precipitation alter MP distribution and toxicity in ecosystems. It calls for integrated strategies that address both plastic pollution and climate change.
Toxicological aspects of wastewater
This textbook chapter is not about microplastics specifically; it provides a broad review of environmental toxicology topics including climate change, water and air pollution, and industrial contaminants, with microplastics mentioned only as one of many pollutants.
To breathe or not to breathe: Implications of hazardous air quality
This review examines the relationship between climate change, worsening air quality, and associated human health impacts, focusing on the spectrum of respiratory diseases and cancers linked to air pollution. The authors argue that governments and public health sectors must strengthen pollution control policies and reduce carbon and other pollutants to protect population health.