EDITORIAL article Front. Mar. Sci., 28 February 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.863595

Petroleum hydrocarbons are important energy resources used by industry and in our daily life, whose production contributes highly to environmental pollution. To control such risk, bioremediation constitutes an environmentally friendly alternative technology that has been established and applied. It constitutes the primary mechanism for the elimination of hydrocarbons from contaminated sites by ...

The coastal zone is a unique geologic, ecological and biological domain of vital importance to a vast array of terrestrial and aquatic life forms-including humankind. Managing the plethora of rights, restrictions and responsibilities of resources within the marine environment and at the littoral zone has created one of the world’s most complex areas of management. Evidently effective administra...

Angel Borja*, Theo C. Prins, Nomiki Simboura, Jesper H. Andersen, Torsten Berg, Joao-Carlos Marques, Joao M. Neto, Nadia Papadopoulou, Johnny Reker, Heliana Teixeira and Laura Uusitalo 1 AZTI-Tecnalia, Marine Research Division, Pasaia, Spain 2 Deltares, Delft, Netherlands 3 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Anavissos, Greece 4 NIVA Denmark Water Research, Copenhage...

BACKGROUND The application of chemical dispersants as a response to marine oil spills is raising concerns related to their potential toxicity also towards microbes involved in oil biodegradation. Hence, oil spills occurring under marine environments necessitate the application of biodispersants that are highly active, stable and effective under marine environment context. Biosurfactants from ma...

1 Center for Marine Environmental Ecology, School of Environment Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, 2 School of Ecology, Environment and Resources, Qinghai University for Nationalities, Xining, China, 3 Duke Marine Laboratory, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, 4 Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Educatio...

The main factors of the developmental environment of marine source rocks in continental margin basins have their specificality. This realization, in return, has led to the recognition that the developmental environment and pattern of marine source rocks, especially for the source rocks in continental margin basins, are still controversial or poorly understood. Through the analysis of the trace ...

This paper describes the marine cadastre concept, and reviews both the current and future directions of international and national marine cadastre initiatives. This includes an overview of the incentives, objectives, principle tasks and results of current research as well as reporting on the outcomes of the PCGIAP-International Workshop on administering the marine environment held in Malaysia i...

The ocean is a critical element of human well-being and livelihood, providing home for diverse range creatures that inhabit both coastal pelagic ecosystems, from microbes to marine mammals [...]