Unseen threat in the roof of the world: a meta-analysis of microplastic pollution leading to heightened ecological risk in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

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Optimism for a global plastics treaty

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Nanoplastic occurrence, transformation and toxicity: a review

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Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems: sources, transport, fate, mitigation, and remediation strategies

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A critical review of microplastic contamination in high altitude ecosystems, transport pathways, ecological risks, and imminent solutions

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Novel insights related to soil microplastic abundance and vegetable microplastic contamination

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Fate of microplastics under the influence of climate change

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Microplastics in the cryosphere-a potential time bomb?

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Microplastics in agricultural crops and their possible impact on farmers’ health: a review

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Microplastics and nanoplastics: fate, transport, and governance from agricultural soil to food webs and humans

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Microplastics in plateau agricultural areas: spatial changes reveal their source and distribution characteristics

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The occurrence of microplastics in farmland and grassland soils in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau: different land use and mulching time in facility agriculture

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Are microplastics a new cardiac threat? A pilot study with wild fish from the North East Atlantic Ocean

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Microplastic in fishes: the first report from a Himalayan River—Alaknanda

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Mitigating microplastic pollution: a critical review on the effects, remediation, and utilization strategies of microplastics

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Occurrence of microplastics in natural and farmland soil in the Qilian Mountains of the Northern Tibetan Plateau

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Microplastics in glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau: evidence for the long-range transport of microplastics

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Microplastics research in Nepal: present scenario and current gaps in knowledge

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Microplastics in water, sediments, and fish at Alpine River, originating from the Hindu Kush Mountain, Pakistan: implications for conservation

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Microplastics in the Koshi River, a remote alpine river crossing the Himalayas from China to Nepal

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Characteristics of microplastics in tributaries of the upper Brahmaputra River along the Himalayan foothills, India

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Pathway-specific microplastic dynamics in a Himalayan urban lake, India: insights on how continuous rainfall transforms microplastic characteristics and risk

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Importance of atmospheric transport for microplastics deposited in remote areas

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Long-range transport of atmospheric microplastics deposited onto glacier in southeast Tibetan Plateau

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Microplastic pollution in the glaciers, lakes, and rivers of the Hindu Kush Himalayas: knowledge gaps and future perspectives

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Microplastic contamination and environmental risks in the Beas River, western Himalayas

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Microplastic pollution in high-altitude Nainital lake, Uttarakhand, India

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Analysis of microplastics in soils on the high-altitude area of the Tibetan Plateau: multiple environmental factors

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Agricultural plastic mulching as a source of microplastics in the terrestrial environment

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Microplastics in the River Ganga and its fishes: study of a Himalayan River

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Reaching new heights in plastic pollution—preliminary findings of microplastics on Mount Everest

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Human activities increased microplastics contamination in the Himalaya mountains

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Microplastic pollution in the Himalayas: occurrence, distribution, accumulation and environmental impacts

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First incidence of microplastic in commercially important food fishes and waters: a case study in the dal Lake ecosystem of North-Western Himalaya (India)

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Microplastic in upper Himalayan Ganga river: occurrence, seasonal dynamics and ecological risk

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A review of black carbon in snow and ice and its impact on the cryosphere

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Current status and future perspectives of microplastic pollution in typical cryospheric regions

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Advances on micro/nanoplastics and their effects on the living organisms: a review

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Microplastics pollution in the Asian water tower: source, environmental distribution and proposed mitigation strategy

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Deciphering the source contribution of microplastics in the glaciers of the North-Western Himalayas

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