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A new study highlights that exposure via household fibre is an important source of microplastics compared to what its measured in wild mussels. Aiborne fibres ...
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A new study finds 73 percent of mesopelagic fish caught in the Northwest Atlantic had microplastics in their stomachs -- one of the highest levels globally. ...
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Joleah B. Lamb, Bette L. Willis, Evan A. Fiorenza, Courtney S. Couch, Robert Howard, Douglas N. Rader, James D. True, Lisa A. Kelly, Awaludinnoer Ahmad, ...
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D.J. Hodgson, A.L. Bréchon1, R.C. Thompson, 2017. Ingestion and fragmentation of plastic carrier bags by the amphipod Orchestia gammarellus: Effects of ...
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Pauli N-C, Petermann JS, Lott C., Weber M., 2017/ Macrofoulong communities and the degradation of plastic bags in the sea : an in situ experiment. Royal. ...
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Austin S.Allen, Alexander C.Seymour & Daniel Rittschof. 2017. Chemoreception drives plastic consumption in a hard coral. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 124, ...
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Karin Mattsson, Elyse V.Johnson, Anders Malmendal, Sara Linse, Lars-Anders Hansson & Tommy Cedervall. Brain damage and behavioural disorders in fish induced by ...
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Kakani Katija, C. Anela Choy, Rob E. Sherlock, Alana D. Sherman, Bruce H. Robinson, From the surface to the seafloor: How giant larvaceans transport ...
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R. Geyer, J.R.. Jambeck, K.L. Law, Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made. Science. Advances. 3, e1700782 (2017) Abstract Plastics have ...
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Laurent L. C. M. Lebreton et al . River plastic emissions to the world's oceans, Nature Communications . 8, 15611 doi: 10.1038/ncomms15611 (2017). ...
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Microplastics in the Antarctic marine system: An emerging area of research Abstract: It was thought that the Southern Ocean was relatively free of ...
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An uninhabited island in the south Pacific, Henderson Island located thousand of miles away from civilisation has more than 37 millions bits of plastic junk ...
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Cozar et al ., 2017. The Arctic Ocean as a dead end for floating plastics in the North Atlantic branch of the Thermohaline Circulation, Science Advances . ...
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González-Fernández D and Hanke G (2017) Toward a Harmonized Approach for Monitoring of Riverine Floating Macro Litter Inputs to the Marine Environment. ...
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Researchers have analysed several photographs of the bottom of the Arctic Ocean taken between 2002 and 2014. They found that litter densities at HAUSGARTEN ...
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A new study on how ocean currents transport floating marine debris is helping to explain how garbage patches form in the world's oceans. Researchers from the ...
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A recent study found out that there is a significant bioaccumulation of organic pollutants in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers from the ...
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Researchers from Bristol and Oxford universities have found new evidence of microbeads inside deep-sea organisms like hermit crabs, squat lobsters and sea ...
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CNN published a wonderful artile saying: Researchers estimate there will be more plastic than fish in oceans by 2050 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has ...
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Atsuhiko Isobe , 2016. Percentage of microbeads in pelagic microplastics within Japanese coastal waters, Marine Pollution Bulletin. Research Institute for ...
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