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Sunscreen pollution is abated during the COVID-19 “Anthropause” of 2020 in two U.S. National Parks: Cape Lookout National Seashore and Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park
| العنوان: | Sunscreen pollution is abated during the COVID-19 “Anthropause” of 2020 in two U.S. National Parks: Cape Lookout National Seashore and Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park |
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| المؤلفون: | Downs, C.A., Akerlof, K.L., Stien, Didier, Rodrigues, Alice M.S., Diaz-Cruz, M. Silvia, Quintana, Gerard, Fulton, Deborah |
| المساهمون: | Haereticus Environmental Laboratory, Partenaires INRAE, George Mason University Fairfax, Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Microbiennes (LBBM), PIERRE FABRE-EDF (EDF)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls (OOB), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas España = Spanish National Research Council Spain (CSIC), National Park Service, Grant/Award Number: P14PC00630/140P2119F0193 Cooperative Agreement, Grant/Award Number: P20AC00961/P17AC00691 |
| المصدر: | ISSN: 1385-1101. |
| بيانات النشر: | CCSD Elsevier |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | oxybenzone, National Park, sunscreen pollution, risk assessment, Anthropause, COVID-19, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, [SDV.TOX.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Toxicology/Ecotoxicology |
| الوصف: | International audience ; From March to June 2020, governments across the world imposed lockdowns in an attempt to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 during the early phase of the pandemic. This period of time in which human activity slowed worldwide has been coined the “Anthropause”. The goal of this study was to determine if sunscreen pollution abated during the Anthropause and to identify the severity of the pollution when tourism/recreation recovered at two coastal units of the U.S. National Park System: Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park in Hawaiʻi, U.S.A. and Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina, U.S.A. Active ingredients of sunscreen products were measured in water and sand samples at both locations, including oxybenzone, octinoxate, octocrylene, octisalate, homosalate, and relevant breakdown products of some of these ingredients. A risk assessment was conducted on Anthropause and post-Anthropause contaminant levels for both locations to determine if there was a threat reduction during the Anthropause, and whether tourism recovery in the post-Anthropause period served as a threat to coastal wildlife. Both national park units exhibited an almost absolute reduction in the levels of sunscreen contamination during the Anthropause period, a striking commonality considering the geographic expanse separating the parks. Once travel restrictions were lifted, a large influx of tourists ensued at both locations, resulting in a relatively sudden and dangerous increase in the levels of sunscreen chemical pollution. This study supports the argument that unmanaged tourism is a source of coastal sunscreen pollution that poses a threat to the localized continuity of species populations and biodiversity, especially to coral reefs and fisheries. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.seares.2024.102510 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hal.science/hal-04668216 https://hal.science/hal-04668216v1/document https://hal.science/hal-04668216v1/file/2024%20Anthropause%20JSR%20pour%20HAL.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2024.102510 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.6162F1C4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.seares.2024.102510 |
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