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Pesticide risk assessment and management in a globally changing world—report from a European interdisciplinary workshop
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Petroleum oil and mercury pollution from shipwrecks in Norwegian coastal waters
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Worldwide there are tens of thousands of sunken shipwrecks lying on the coastal seabed. These potentially polluting wrecks (PPW) are estimated to hold 3–25 million t of oil. Other hazardous cargo in PPW includes ordnance, ... -
Pharmaceutical pollution: Prediction of environmental concentrations from national wholesales data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The regulation and monitoring of pharmaceutical pollution in Europe lag behind that of more prominent groups. However, the repurposing of sales data to predict surface water environmental concentrations is a promising ... -
Pharmaceuticals and their metabolites in the marine environment: Sources, analytical methods and occurrence
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environmental waters is a global concern. There is little research conducted on the monitoring of pharmaceuticals in the marine environment. In this article, the occurrence of ... -
Physicochemical and biological ageing processes of (micro)plastics in the environment: a multi-tiered study on polyethylene
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Pollution by plastic and microplastic impacts the environment globally. Knowledge on the ageing mechanisms of plastics in natural settings is needed to understand their environmental fate and their reactivity in the ... -
Phytoplankton Blooms at Increasing Levels of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Experimental Evidence for Negative Effects on Prymnesiophytes and Positive on Small Picoeukaryotes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and the ongoing accumulation in the surface ocean together with concomitantly decreasing pH and calcium carbonate saturation states have the potential to impact phytoplankton ... -
Phytoplankton dynamics in contrasting early stage North Atlantic spring blooms: composition, succession, and potential drivers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The spring bloom is a key annual event in the phenology of pelagic ecosystems, making a major contribution to the oceanic biological carbon pump through the production and export of organic carbon. However, there is little ... -
Pilot introducing the river basin management approach in Sittaung River Basin/Myanmar
(Professional article, 2017)An important aim of the IWRM Institutional Building and Training project is to pilot test the river basin management approach in Myanmar. The purpose is to investigate how cooperation between different sectors on river ... -
Pipes or chimneys? For carbon cycling in small boreal lakes, precipitation matters most
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Are small lakes passive pipes transporting terrigenous organic carbon (dissolved organic carbon [DOC]), or chimneys for CO2 release in the landscape? Using a unique combination of 30‐yr measurements, sediment dating and ... -
Plant-microbial synergism: An effective approach for the remediation of shale-gas fracturing flowback and produced water
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Effective and affordable treatment of hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water (FPW) is a major challenge for the sustainability of unconventional shale-gas exploration and development. We investigated the effectiveness ... -
Plastic bans in India – Addressing the socio-economic and environmental complexities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)As one of the flagship amendments to the Plastic Waste Management (PWM) Rules, 2021, the pan-Indian ban on a group of single-use plastic products (SUPPs) introduced in mid-2022 provided a departure point towards more ... -
Plastic ingestion by Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) from the Norwegian coast
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This study documents the occurrence of microplastic (< 5 mm), mesoplastics (5–20 mm) and macroplastic (> 20 mm) in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), a common and economically important species of marine fish in Norway. Fish ... -
Plastic recycling plant as a point source of microplastics to sediment and macroinvertebrates in a remote stream
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Microplastic is now ubiquitous in freshwater, sediment and biota, globally. This is as a consequence of inputs from, for example, waste mismanagement, effluents from wastewater treatment plants and surface runoff from ... -
Plastic sources: A survey across scientific and grey literature for their inventory and relative contribution to microplastics pollution in natural environments, with an emphasis on surface water
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Plastic debris are at present recognized as an emerging potential threat for natural environments, wildlife and humans. In the past years an increasing attention has been addressed to investigate the presence and concentration ... -
Plastics in biosolids from 1950 to 2016: A function of global plastic production and consumption
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Plastics are ubiquitous contaminants that leak into the environment from multiple pathways including the use of treated sewage sludge (biosolids). Seven common plastics (polymers) were quantified in the solid fraction of ... -
Plastid DNA sequences and oospore characters of some European taxa of Tolypella section Tolypella (Characeae) identify five clusters, including one new cryptic Tolypella taxon from Sardinia, but they do not coincide with current morphological descriptions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In Europe, the genus Tolypella (Characeae) comprises four to eight Tolypella taxa in sections Rothia and Tolypella that have been distinguished by vegetative morphology and gametangial characters such as antheridial size ... -
The plight of camels eating plastic waste
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Ecological impacts of plastic pollution are widespread, in all biomes and geographies. Here, we report the ingestion of anthropogenic waste, primarily plastic bags and rope by dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius) in the ... -
Polar organic chemical integrative samplers as an effective tool for chemical monitoring of surface waters – Results from one-year monitoring in France
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In an effort to support European Union Water Framework Directive goals, we have set up a national demonstrator project to identify the advantages and limitations of passive samplers for regulatory monitoring of polar ... -
Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Throughout the European Union (EU), agricultural practices contribute significantly to the pollution of water resources by nitrates, phosphorus and pesticides. This article sheds light on the degree of horizontal legal ... -
Polychaetes from Jan Mayen (Annelida, Polychaeta)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)A thorough literature review has been undertaken to establish the first complete account of polychaetes recorded from the area around the volcanic island of Jan Mayen. The annotated checklist lists 121 species-level taxa, ...