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

• Published in: Water
• Main Authors: Frank, Yuliya A., Vorobiev, Danil S., Kayler, Olga A., Vorobiev, Egor D., Kulinicheva, Ksenia S., Trifonov, Anton A., Hunter, Soliman Tina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: микропластик; поверхностные воды; Енисей; река; Сибирь; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yenisei River; Tunguska; Nizhnyaya Tunguska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/w13223248; https://vital.lib.tsu.ru/vital/access/manager/Repository/koha:000902599

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...