Chemical pollutants include such things as petrochemicals, dissolved metals, fertilizers and organic pesticides. Chemical pollutants are most concentrated adjacent to heavily populated areas, industry, intensive agriculture and military activities. Consequently, the adverse impacts of marine pollution are most apparent in the nearshore environment (state and territorial waters) (Green 1997). Th...

Observations of beached polypropylene inkjet cartridges, spilled from a ship container lost in the North Atlantic Ocean, have been compiled through calls on international social media. Within period four years spillage, total about 1500 cartridges was reported locations as far apart Florida and northern Norway. The distribution reflected principal surface currents ocean, with some carried by Az...

Plastic debris has been accumulating in the marine realm since start of plastic mass production 1950s. Due to adverse effects on ocean life, fate plastics environment is an increasingly important environmental issue. Microbial degradation, addition weathering, identified as a potentially relevant breakdown route for debris. Although many studies have focused microbial colonization and potential...

Plastics in the marine environment have become a major concern because of their persistence at sea, and adverse consequences to marine life and potentially human health. Implementing mitigation strategies requires an understanding and quantification of marine plastic sources, taking spatial and temporal variability into account. Here we present a global model of plastic inputs from rivers into ...

A significant amount of marine debris has accumulated in the North Pacific Central Gyre (NPCG). The effects on larger marine organisms have been documented through cases of entanglement and ingestion; however, little is known about the effects on lower trophic level marine organisms. This study is the first to document ingestion and quantify the amount of plastic found in the gut of common plan...

Introduction: Marine debris has been a major problem towards ASEAN environment for the past decade, with several of its member state becoming largest sources marine derbis globally. The article presents three main causes and reviewing how to what extend attempted stop or prevent continuation these causes.Purposes Research: This study aims see whether Debris already tackled by frameworks policie...

Introduction On the morning of 15 March, 2000, phones began ringing in Washington, Virginia, and Massachusetts. Emails flew between the USA and the Bahamas. The event behind these communications was a mass stranding of beaked whales (Ziphiidae) in the northern Bahamas extending from Grand Bahama to the tip of Abaco (Evans and England, 2001). Over two days, 17 whales were reported on shore, of w...