Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Environ Monit Assess. 2023 Jan 18;195(2):310. doi: 10.1007/s10661-023-10912-8.
Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and global climate change have attracted worldwide attention. PFAS have been found all across the planet, from the polar regions to the global ocean. Global oceans have emerged as a substantial sink for the carbon in the environment due to their remarkable capacity to absorb atmospheric carbon. Oceans absorb around 24% of the world's CO emissions. Thus, the ocean plays a prominent role in the earth's carbon cycle. However, the widespread application of PFAS in a wide range of products and the inefficient management of PFAS-containing wastes made them ubiquitous pollutants, which are increasingly getting as a pollutant of emerging concern. Marine PFAS pollutants can produce harmful effects on gas exchange and the ocean's carbon cycle. Thus, it leads to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, which eventually adversely affects global warming and climate change. Consequently, threats of marine PFAS to oceans carbon sequestration are discussed in this paper. Marine PFAS pollutants adversely affect the following sectors: (1) The growth and photosynthesis of phytoplankton, (2) development and reproduction of zooplankton by causing toxicity in zooplankton, (3) marine biological pomp, and (4) carbon stock of oceans. In this way, marine PFAS can pose a threat to ocean carbon sequestration. It is expected that this study can develop knowledge about the potential impact of PFAS on ocean carbon sequestration. However, the need for further research to investigate the hidden dimensions of this issue, including the potential scope and scale of this impact, should not be overlooked.
多氟和全氟烷基物质(PFAS)和全球气候变化引起了全世界的关注。PFAS 已经在全球范围内被发现,从极地到全球海洋。由于其吸收大气碳的非凡能力,全球海洋已成为环境中碳的重要汇。海洋吸收了全球约 24%的 CO2 排放量。因此,海洋在地球的碳循环中起着重要的作用。然而,PFAS 在广泛的产品中的广泛应用和对含有 PFAS 的废物的低效管理使它们成为无处不在的污染物,它们越来越成为一种新出现的关注污染物。海洋 PFAS 污染物会对气体交换和海洋碳循环产生有害影响。因此,这导致温室气体排放增加,最终对全球变暖及气候变化产生不利影响。因此,本文讨论了海洋 PFAS 对海洋碳封存的威胁。海洋 PFAS 污染物对以下几个方面产生不利影响:(1)浮游植物的生长和光合作用,(2)通过对浮游动物产生毒性,影响浮游动物的发育和繁殖,(3)海洋生物泵,以及(4)海洋碳储量。通过这种方式,海洋 PFAS 可能对海洋碳封存构成威胁。希望本研究能够增加关于 PFAS 对海洋碳封存潜在影响的知识。然而,不应忽视需要进一步研究来调查这一问题的隐藏方面,包括这种影响的潜在范围和规模。
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