Evidence for microplastics contamination of the remote tributary of the Yenisei River, Siberia:the pilot study results

• Published in: Water
• Main Authors: Frank, Yulia A., Vorobiev, Danil S., Kayler, Olga A., Vorobiev, Egor D., Kulinicheva, Ksenia S., Trifonov, Anton A., Soliman Hunter, Tina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Microplastics; Yenisei; Siberia; Siberian rivers; Microfibers; Surface water; Bottom sediments; Microplastics abundance; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Nizhnyaya Tunguska; Tunguska; Yenisei River
• Online Access: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/29e88b46-9489-467f-b791-cf9bc48de559; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13223248; https://research-management.mq.edu.au/ws/files/180404393/2021_MP_yenisei_river.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119600732&partnerID=8YFLogxK

This study is a pioneering attempt to count microplastics (MPs) in the Yenisei River system to clarify the role of Siberian Rivers in the transport of MPs to the Arctic Ocean. The average MPs content in the surface water of the Yenisei large tributary, the Nizhnyaya Tunguska River, varied from 1.20...