Climate change is the most significant challenge to achieving sustainable development and threatens to drag thousands of people to severe poverty. It refers to any outstanding measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time. This includes major changes in temperature‚ precipitation or winds patterns and others that occur several days longer. Some Caribbean islands in particular are vulnerable to climate change. Rising sea levels will have a consequential and dampening effect on their economy
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Plastic is Killing Marine Animals “Marine debris is typically described as any persistent‚ manufactured‚ or processed solid material discarded‚ disposed of‚ or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment” (Richard C. Thompson 11). If this is the case‚ how does marine debris end up in and around the water? According to Kimberly Amaral with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution‚ marine debris can reach the ocean three ways; being flushed down the toilet or washed down the drain‚ ultimately ending
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Red tides have been an ongoing environmental problem for our ocean waters wildlife. Red tide is a phenomenon caused by harmful algal blooms that occur when colonies of algae (simple plants that live in the sea and freshwater) grow so numerous that they discolor coastal waters (resulting in the name “red tide”). These large algal blooms of toxic producing dinoflagellates (single-celled organisms that are able to form nutritional organic substances from inorganic substances) may diminish oxygen in
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Have you been wondering what the whole fuss over plastic bags is about? Where many people would rather use paper bags over plastic when shopping? Everyone has different opinions on how they affect our society‚ some people say they help us out‚ and others say they are hazards to our world. Both cases have valid arguments supporting their opinions‚ and both sides have facts that people can support. I personally think that they are more work to deal with than they seem to help alleviate. The reason
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For most people‚ the ocean is something that has always been there. After all‚ Earth is covered in a lot of water. But not everything is as fine as it seems. Although it may look like everything is doing well‚ the truth is that the ocean‚ and the marine life it sustains‚ is actually dying. Now‚ this doesn’t mean that the ocean is going to disappear anytime soon‚ but it does mean that things will change very drastically if nothing is done about this situation. If the ocean is dying‚ why isn’t everyone
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Oil Spills and Its Effects on Marine Life Many people do not realize the impact of the oil spills that occur in the ocean. It is like putting water into a heated oil frying substance. It is quite catastrophic. With all the oil spills that have already occurred it is important to help clean ‚and prevent oil spills from reoccuring. There is indeed a lot of reasons as to why we should clean and help prevent oil spills from happening but here are the three main reasons. First reason being oil spills
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The mesopelagic zone extends from about 200 m to about: (10 points) a. 300 m b. 500 m c. 1‚000 m d. 2‚000 m e. 4‚000 m The water below the oxygen minimum layer has: (10 points) a. no oxygen at all b. only very small traces of oxygen c. some of the oxygen it had when it left the surface d. most of the oxygen it had when it left the surface The zone immediately below the bathyal zone is called the: (10 points) a. abyssal b. hadal
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Eating shrimp contributes to the destruction of the marine environment. By eating shrimp you are supporting the shrimping business‚ which is an abusive‚ wasteful process. The resources in the ocean are very scarce and they maintain a fragile ecosystem. As the shrimping business grows the damage to the ecosystem becomes irreversible. I am against shrimping because of the number of sea turtle deaths‚ the amount of bycatch caused by shrimping‚ and how the nets tear up the ocean floor. Shrimping
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Seafarming “Things are not looking good in our oceans and seas‚ our bays and waterways‚ our rivers and streams.” This is what Meehan claimed in his essay “Seafarming at the End of the World.” For those that have never heard of this concept‚ sea farming is a form of marine cultivation where organisms are raised and grown in a particular area. Peter Meehan explores this idea due to the dramatic decrease in certain organisms such as kelp‚ shellfish‚ and oysters. Sea farming is the only proposal thus
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