Ocean and
waterways
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A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required
Marcus Eriksen, Win Cowger, Lisa M. Erdle, Scott Coffin, Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez, Charles J. Moore, Edward J. Carpenter, Robert H. Day, Martin Thiel, Chris Wilcox
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Large quantities of small microplastics permeate the surface ocean to abyssal depths in the South Atlantic Gyre
Shiye Zhao, Erik R. Zettler, Ryan P. Bos, Peigen Lin, Linda A. Amaral-Zettler, Tracy J. Mincer
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Multidecadal increase in plastic particles in coastal ocean sediments
Jennifer A. Brandon*, William Jones, Mark D. Ohman
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The rise in ocean plastics evidenced from a 60-year time series
Clare Ostle, Richard C. Thompson, Derek Broughton, Lance Gregory, Marianne Wootton & David G. Johns
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The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: A review
Stephanie L. Wright, Richard C. Thompson, Tamara S. Galloway
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First account of plastic pollution impacting freshwater fishes in the Amazon: Ingestion of plastic debris by piranhas and other serrasalmids with diverse feeding habits
Marcelo C. Andrade, Kirk O. Winemiller, Priscilla S. Barbosa, Alessia Fortunati, David Chelazzi, Alessandra Cincinelli, Tommaso Giarrizzo
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Polystyrene nanoplastics accumulate in ZFL cell lysosomes and in zebrafish larvae after acute exposure, inducing a synergistic immune response in vitro without affecting larval survival in vivo
Irene Brandts, Marlid Garcia-Ordoñez, Lluis Tort, Mariana Teles and Nerea Roher