This study highlights the transport of emerging pollutants through source-to-sea hydrological cycle. Based on a UNESCO–HELCOM pharmaceuticals in aquatic environment Baltic Sea region, it presents information pharmaceutical sales and detection different types wastewater, sludge, river water, seawater, ocean sediment marine biota. It new science-based policy developments commitments to reduce dis...

PAHs are a class of organic compounds, which are included in the wider family of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs). These compounds have shown carcinogenic and/or mutagenic activity in laboratory experiments with animals. PACs are generally formed during incomplete combustion or pyrolysis of organic matter occurring in a variety of natural processes or human activities. Consequently, PAHs ar...

OVERVIEW Global climate change is expected to have broad health impacts. If current warming trends continue, heat waves, floods, and droughts and their attendant physical effects are likely to become more frequent and severe. Warmer air temperatures can influence the concentration of regional air pollutants and aeroallergens. Less direct health impacts may result from the disruption of ecosyste...

BACKGROUND Organochlorine contaminants (OCs), like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs), are widespread marine pollutants resulting from massive historical use and environmental persistence. Exposure to and health effects of these OCs in the marine environment may be examined by studying California sea lions (Zalophus californianus), which are long lived,...

In addition to eating contaminated prey, sea turtles may be exposed to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from ingesting plastic debris that has absorbed these chemicals. Given the limited knowledge about POPs in pelagic sea turtles and how plastic ingestion influences POP exposure, our objectives were to: 1) provide baseline contaminant levels of three species of pelagic Pacific sea turtles;...

Bivalves and especially mussels are very good indicators of marine and estuarine pollution, and so they have been widely used in biomonitoring programs all around the world. However, traditional single parameter biomarkers face the problem of high sensitivity to biotic and abiotic factors. In our study, digestive gland peroxisome-enriched fractions of Mytilus edulis (L., 1758) were analyzed by ...