Plastic ingestion by adult Procellariiformes has been widely recorded, but few studies have evaluated intergenerational transfer. We assessed the prevalence of plastic particles, as well as their basic characteristics, in the gut content of dead Cory's shearwater fledglings stranded by light pollution on Canary Islands. Eighty-three percent of birds were affected, containing on average 8.0 plas...

In recent decades, environmental pollution has emerged as a core issue, around the globe, rendering it of fundamental concern to eco-toxicologists, environmental biologists, eco-chemists, pathologists, and researchers from other fields. The dissolution of polluting agents is a leading cause of environmental pollution of all key spheres including the hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere, amon...

The ever increasing impact of the marine industry and transport on vulnerable sea areas puts the marine environment under exceptional pressure and calls for inspired methods for mitigating the impact of the related risks. We describe a method for preventive reduction of remote environmental risks caused by the shipping and maritime industry that are transported by surface currents and wind impa...

In this study, we measured the distribution of heavy metals (Pb, Ni, Fe, Mn, Cd, Cu) in the surface water of Bengal Coast at the southern part of Bangladesh. We also examined the common water quality parameters to discuss the impacts of pollution. It was revealed that the majority of the heavy metals have been introduced into the Bengal marine from the riverine inflows that are also affected by...

a Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA b Ventura County Air Pollution Control District, Ventura, CA 93003, USA 1 c Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA d Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA e Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel S...

background: sediments in marine environment have a large capacity in binding with heavy metals; therefore, they are potential pollutants of water resources. the anzali wetland, located in the southern region of the caspian sea, iran, has been consistently threatened by heavy metal pollutants because of urban, agricultural and industrial wastewater inflow. the purpose of this study is to investi...

During the last decades, marine pollution with anthropogenic litter has become a worldwide major environmental concern. Standardized monitoring of litter since 2001 on 78 beaches selected within the framework of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) has been used to identify temporal trends of marine litter. Based on statistical analyses ...

There are increasing concerns regarding the delivery, movement and presence of non-indigenous or invasive species into marine and estuarine areas. Such introductions can be on a large scale such as the movement to higher latitudes of species as the result of global warming. Alternatively, such species can be introduced into a marine or estuarine area as the result of small-scale events, such as...

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"In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand."  Baba Dioum, Senegalese naturalist and poet Introduction The marine environment encompasses a broad array of ecosystems, ranging from spectacular coral reefs and kelp forests, to coastal mangroves, seagrass beds, and salt marshes, to expansive deepsea plains interspersed with trenches, seamounts, ridges, an...