Sentences with phrase «highest microplastics»
Between Basel and Rotterdam, the Rhine has one of the highest microplastics pollution so far measured in rivers, with the Rhine - Ruhr metropolitan area showing peak numbers of up to four times the average.
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«The high microplastic concentrations in the sea ice can not only be attributed to sources outside the Arctic Ocean.
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In fact, terrestrial microplastic pollution is much higher than marine microplastic pollution — an estimate of four to 23 times more, depending on the environment.
Finding high levels of fibers in the fish is significant, as some studies investigating microplastics in fish have dismissed such fibers as contaminants from the lab environment, meaning their role as a pollutant may have been underestimated.
The study, published today in open - access journal Frontiers in Marine Science, found microplastics in the stomachs of nearly three out of every four mesopelagic fish caught in the Northwest Atlantic — one of the highest levels globally.
«The high ingestion rate of microplastics by mesopelagic fish that we observed has important consequences for the health of marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycling in general.»
«We recorded one of the highest frequencies of microplastics among fish species globally,» says Wieczorek.
The minimum average microplastics pollution was found in the stretch between Basel and Mainz (202,900 particles per square kilometer), a medium average at Bad Honnef, Köln - Porz and Leverkusen (714,053) and the highest average in the Rhine - Ruhr metropolitan area (2,333,665).
«The Rhine's microplastics concentrations are thus among the highest so far studied worldwide,» says biologist Professor Patricia Holm from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel.
On 7 December, Uppsala University in Sweden released a long - awaited report by its Board for Investigation of Misconduct in Research, which investigated a high - profile paper about the effects of microplastics on fish, published in Science in June 2016.
High concentrations of microplastics have been found in five oceanic gyres (the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, South Indian, North Pacific and South Pacific gyres).
Seafood, particularly shellfish, contains high concentrations of microplastics that may accumulate in your body after you eat these foods.
The highest levels of microplastic contamination were found in the United States, where 94 percent of the samples were contaminated.
The levels were so high that scientists are revising up their estimates for global marine microplastic pollution.
Last week news broke that microplastics are found in 93 % of bottled water and the highest levels ever were found in an English river.
Scientists will attempt to establish how much plastic might be embedded in ice across the region, and to what extent high concentrations of microplastics and plastics in ice might accelerate climate change.
The Arctic Ocean faces possible near - permanent contamination as scientists collected record high of microplastics.
Also recognizes the need for more knowledge and research on the source and fate of microplastics and their impact on biodiversity, marine ecosystems and human health, noting recent knowledge that such particles can be ingested by biota and could be transferred to higher levels in the marine food chain, causing adverse effects; 6.
A new study conducted by researchers at the State University of New York Fredonia has found that brands of sea salt sold in China contain high amounts of microplastics.