Dredging poses a potential risk to tropical ecosystems, especially in turbidity-sensitive
environments such as coral reefs, filter feeding communities and seagrasses. There is little …

The Mediterranean Sea is one of the most impacted basins in terms of microplastics
pollution. Land-based activities are the major sources of plastic litter to the ocean, with …

Dredging of contaminated sediments has shown to be a harmful activity for the environment,
because a number of contaminants can be resuspended and become available to the …

Extreme weather phenomena have become more frequent and intense in recent decades in
the context of climate change, and these include heat waves that affect both the atmosphere …

Sediment dredging can cause damage to the marine environment due to mobilization of
sediments and contaminants. The effects of dredging and boundary environmental …

Ports are complex environments due to their complicated geometry (quays, channels, and
piers), the presence of human activities (vessel traffic, shipyards, industries, and …

A multiproxy approach involving grain size, geophysical (resistivity, magnetic susceptibility,
and P-wave velocity), mineralogical (XRD), and geochemical (elemental, stable isotopes) …

In this paper, a monitoring and modelling concept for ecological optimized harbour dredging
and fine sediment disposal in large rivers is presented. According to the concept, first a …

Sepetiba Bay (SB) is one of the Brazilian coastal regions most impacted by anthropogenic
activities due to increased population density, the installation of tourist and industrial mega …

Suspended sediment distribution and fluxes were estimated within the dominant channel at
the mouth of the Rhone River for two annual flood events. The estimates were based on …