Plastic pollution in the world's oceans: more than 5 trillion plastic pieces weighing over 250,000 tons afloat at sea. PLoS One 9, e111913. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111913.Eriksen M, Lebreton LC, Carson HS, Thiel M, Moore CJ, Borerro JC, Galgani F, Ryan PG, ...
The problem of plastic pollution in the world’s seas and oceans has attracted increasing scientific concern1, with calls for an international agreement to address this issue. Any such agreement would extend, complement, and also challenge existing international, regional, national, sub-national, and...
Plastic pollution permeates every inch of the ocean – from microplastics in the food chain to plastic water bottles floating on the surface. One of the most famous examples, however, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This monolith of ocean pollution is made up of all kinds of marine debri...
Plastic pollution in the world's oceans is now widely recognized as a major global challenge -- but we still know very little about how these plastics are actually reaching the sea. A new global initiative shows how focusing on rivers and river mouths can yield vital clues about how we ...
OceansInstitute,UniversityofWesternAustralia,Crawley,Perth,Australia *marcus@5gyres Abstract Plasticpollutionisubiquitousthroughoutthemarineenvironment,yetestimatesof theglobalabundanceandweightoffloatingplasticshavelackeddata,particularly fromtheSouthernHemisphereandremoteregions.Herewereportanestimateof ...
摘要: The pervasive nature of marine plastic pollution was highlighted at the recent United NationsEnvironment Assembly. This meeting saw strong commitments for action, but at the sametime reinforced the challenges for contemporary ocean governance in addressing marineplastic pollution.关键词:...
根据第一段“The amount of plastic pollution in the oceans is rapidly increasing. This is problematic, as at least 700 kinds of ocean animals — including sharks, whales, seabirds and turtles — can become caught in the stuff or mistake it for a tasty snack. (海洋中的塑料污染正在迅速增加。
However, due to human activity, our oceans face severe threats. Climate change is causing harm to coral reefs, overfishing is depleting fish stocks, and agricultural nutrient pollution is contributing to the formation of dead zones. In addition, more than 12 million tonnes of plastic finds its ...
Rivers are a major source of plastic waste in the oceans. We estimate that 1000 rivers, are accountable for nearly 80% of global annual riverine plastic emissions, which range between 0.8 – 2.7 million metric tons per year, with small urban rivers among
But plastic is getting into rivers all over the world. Read: It's not just the oceans - microplastic pollution is all around us Thames21 is a group that organizes clean-ups along the foreshore of the River Thames, in the UK, and educates people to not pollute it. ...