Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Publication Year:
2021
Publication Place
Nairobi, Kenya
Physical Description:
151 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
44330Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Littering - Plastic pollution - Oceania
Abstract
This assessment provides the strongest scientific argument to date for the urgency of acting, and for collective action to protect and restore our oceans. The assessment details the impacts of marine litter and plastic pollution – from the population level to the sub-cellular – revealing previously unknown aspects of the effects of microplastics on physiology as well as their ecotoxicological effects on ecosystems, wildlife and humans. Drawing on a comprehensive synthesis of the latest findings about the sources, pathways and fate of marine litter and plastic pollution, the assessment highlights the pervasiveness of plastics and microplastics, from the deepest abyssal environments to the most remote oceanic islands, and the extreme pressure being exerted on the planet.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Publication Year:
2021
Publication Place
Nairobi, Kenya
Physical Description:
151 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
44330 Record Created: 07-Nov-2021
Record Modified: 07-Nov-2021