Legacy oceanic plastic pollution must be addressed to mitigate possible long-term ecological impacts

C Richon, K Kvale, L Lebreton, M Egger - Microplastics and Nanoplastics, 2023 - Springer
Scientific research over the past decade has demonstrated that plastic in our oceans has
detrimental consequences for marine life at all trophic levels. As countries negotiate an …

[HTML][HTML] Contamination of coastal and marine bird species with plastics: Global analysis and synthesis

G Kibria - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
This review article provides an account of coastal and marine bird species contaminated
with plastics in light of ingestion, taxonomy, feeding clusters, types, shapes, colours and …

[HTML][HTML] Seabird biomonitoring indicates similar plastic pollution throughout the Canary Current

M Sobrino-Monteliu, A Navarro, B Rodríguez… - Marine pollution …, 2025 - Elsevier
Marine plastic pollution is an emerging global threat for biodiversity. Plastic ingestion is one
of the most typical and studied consequences with petrels being a particularly vulnerable …

Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth

SC Davidson, F Cagnacci, P Newman… - Nature ecology & …, 2025 - nature.com
Rapid growth in bio-logging—the use of animal-borne electronic tags to document the
movements, behaviour, physiology and environments of wildlife—offers opportunities to …

Little change in plastic loads in South Atlantic seabirds since the 1980s

V Perold, RA Ronconi, CL Moloney, BJ Dilley… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite growing concern about the large amounts of waste plastic in marine ecosystems,
evidence of an increase in the amount of floating plastic at sea has been mixed. Both at-sea …

Photooxidative degradation and fragmentation behaviors of oriented isotactic polypropylene

Y An, T Kajiwara, A Padermshoke, TV Nguyen… - Polymer Journal, 2024 - nature.com
The photooxidative degradation and fragmentation behaviors of isotactic polypropylene (it
PP) were simulated in laboratory after various postconditions, such as quenching, gradual …

[HTML][HTML] Barau's petrel, Pterodroma baraui, as a bioindicator of plastic pollution in the South-West Indian Ocean: A multifaceted approach

M Thibault, L Weiss, R Fernandez, N Avargues… - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Marine plastic pollution is well described by bioindicator species in temperate and polar
regions but remains understudied in tropical oceans. We addressed this gap by evaluating …

[HTML][HTML] On the vertical structure of non-buoyant plastics in turbulent transport

J Lofty, D Valero, A Moreno-Rodenas, BS Belay… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution is overflowing in rivers. A limited understanding of the physics of plastic
transport in rivers hinders monitoring, the prediction of plastic fate and restricts the …

[HTML][HTML] Ecotoxicological impacts of synthetic microfiber pollutants and development of sustainable mitigation strategies

A Das, S Dey, AP Das - Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, 2024 - Elsevier
Microfibers are one of the most widespread, persistent, and increasingly common pollutants
in wastewater accounting for 85% of global shoreline pollution, and are found in 54% of …

Unseen overlap between fishing vessels and top predators in the northeast Pacific

H Welch, T Clavelle, TD White, MA Cimino… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Accurate assessments of human-wildlife risk associated with industrial fishing are critical for
the conservation of marine top predators. Automatic Identification System (AIS) data provide …