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Microplastics and Anthropogenic Particles in Recreationally Caught Freshwater Fish from an Urbanized Region of the North American Great Lakes

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Interactions between microplastics and Culex sp. larvae in wastewater

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Are Rural and Small Community Aerated Wastewater Stabilization Ponds a Neglected Source of Microplastic Pollution?

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Microplastics in sediments deposited by rainwater runoff in a populated center in the Peruvian Andes

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Levels and composition of microplastics and microfibers in the South Saskatchewan River and stormwater retention ponds in the City of Saskatoon, Canada

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Contribution of Stormwater Outfalls to Microplastic Pollution in a Subtropical Estuary Using Data Collected with the Assistance of Citizen Scientists

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The distribution of sediment microplastics assemblages is driven by location and hydrodynamics, not sediment characteristics, in the Gulf of Maine, USA

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Can water mites’ parasitism influence the number of microplastics ingested by aquatic insects?

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Transport and retention of microplastic fibers in streams are impacted by benthic algae, discharge, and substrate

Berg, E. M., Speir, S. L., Shogren, A. J., Dee, M. M., Vincent, A. E. S., Tank, J. L., Kelly, J. J., & Hoellein, T. J. (2025) · Limnology and Oceanography · doi:10.1002/lno.70003 · Cited by 11

Bioavailability and phytotoxicity of micro/nanoplastics to aquatic plants: Trends, environmental drivers and mechanisms

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Mechanistic Roles of Microplastics in the Phototransformation of Silver Ions in Aquatic Environments

Chi, Y., Xu, D., Liu, Z., Dang, F., Su, W., Wang, J., Liu, X., Dai, Y., Yue, T., Zhao, J. L., et al. (2025) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/acs.est.5c03971 · Cited by 9

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Tillage changes transport and fate of microplastics in the agricultural environment

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A methodology for quantifying and characterizing litter from trash capture devices (TCDs) to measure impact and inform upstream solutions

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Temporal and Spatial Variations in Microplastic Concentrations in Small Headwater Basins in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina, USA

Miller, J. R., Barrett, N., Love, J. B., Gray, A., Youker, R. T., Hall, C., Meiri, N., Gaesser, M., Randall, G., Jarrett, R., et al. (2024) · Environments · doi:10.3390/environments11110240 · Cited by 9

Microplastic characteristics in rain/snow sampled from two northern Chinese cities

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Microplastic pollution in water Systems of the Global South: A review

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Microplastic Pollution in Riparian Soils of the Rapidly Growing City of Thimphu, Bhutan

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Sources and Fate of Microplastics in Urban Systems

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