Nano-plastics and their analytical characterisation and fate in the marine environment: From source to sea

S Gangadoo, S Owen, P Rajapaksha, K Plaisted… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polymer contamination is a major pollutant in all waterways and a significant concern of the
21st Century, gaining extensive research, media, and public attention. The polymer pollution …

Environmental status of (micro) plastics contamination in Portugal

JC Prata, JP da Costa, I Lopes, AC Duarte… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Plastics and microplastics are ubiquitous contaminants in aquatic ecosystems. This critical
review is the first attempt at analyzing sources, concentration, impacts and solutions of …

[HTML][HTML] A citizen science unmanned aerial system data acquisition protocol and deep learning techniques for the automatic detection and map** of marine litter …

A Papakonstantinou, M Batsaris, S Spondylidis… - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Marine litter (ML) accumulation in the coastal zone has been recognized as a major problem
in our time, as it can dramatically affect the environment, marine ecosystems, and coastal …

Microplastic in the stomachs of open-ocean and deep-sea fishes of the North-East Atlantic

JM Pereira, Y Rodríguez, S Blasco-Monleon… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
The presence of microplastic in marine fishes has been well documented but few studies
have directly examined differences between fishes occupying contrasting environmental …

Spatiotemporal variations in anthropogenic marine litter pollution along the northeast beaches of India

M Mugilarasan, R Karthik, R Purvaja, RS Robin… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Marine litter is widely distributed in marine environments and has been a severe concern
worldwide, due to the disposal of waste from diverse sources. The severity of this threat has …

Quantifying marine macro litter abundance on a sandy beach using unmanned aerial systems and object-oriented machine learning methods

G Gonçalves, U Andriolo, L Gonçalves, P Sobral… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) have recently been proven to be valuable remote sensing
tools for detecting marine macro litter (MML), with the potential of supporting pollution …

Marine litter on a highly urbanized beach at Southeast Brazil: a contribution to the development of litter monitoring programs

VV Ribeiro, MAS Pinto, RKB Mesquita, LB Moreira… - Marine Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Seasonal distribution of Marine Litter (ML) on Santos beaches was assessed using
a citizen science strategy. Plastics and cigarette butts (CB) were the dominant items in all …

Addressing the challenge of marine plastic litter in the Moroccan Mediterranean: A citizen science project with schoolchildren

A Bouzekry, B Mghili, M Aksissou - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, based on data collected by citizen science, we studied the abundance, spatial
and temporal distribution of marine litter in three beaches of the Moroccan Mediterranean. A …

Enabling a large-scale assessment of litter along Saudi Arabian red sea shores by combining drones and machine learning

C Martin, Q Zhang, D Zhai, X Zhang, CM Duarte - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Beach litter assessments rely on time inefficient and high human cost protocols, mining the
attainment of global beach litter estimates. Here we show the application of an emerging …

Marine debris in moroccan Mediterranean beaches: an assessment of their abundance, composition and sources

B Mghili, M Analla, M Aksissou, C Aissa - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2020 - Elsevier
Morocco is well known for its attractive Mediterranean beaches, which play an important
economic role. With the fast development and growth, these beaches have become more …