The Great Pacific Garbage Patch By: Niamh Leah Frances Edmonstone Imagine one day the whole ocean turning into a giant patch of toxic trash. People have been trashing the ocean for years‚ but now there is too much trash out there and it is destroying the environment and killing the marine life. If we don ’t try to stop this issue from escalating in the near future‚ The Great Pacific Garbage Patches size will increase rapidly and have huge effects on the planet we live on. Charles Moore‚ an oceanographer
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Alex Ibarra ENG 150-274 December 12‚ 2012 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Living on this earth is a privilege and unfortunately we sometimes take advantage of it. Stories of deforestation‚ air and water pollution really make a person think of just how much our planet is being harmed. A major concern is water pollution. Water covers at least 70 percent of the planet which makes our rivers‚ lakes‚ and oceans essential. Many of these bodies of water are being polluted and although they may be
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch‚ which is a “nebulous‚ floating junk yard on the high seas” that stretches for hundreds of miles across the North Pacific Ocean (McLendon‚ 2010). I have observed that this is an incredible issue occurring today worldwide affecting our environment caused by a large amount of pollution. Today I will be talking about how the world’s largest landfill is formed‚ the global health effects it’s causing‚ and actions that can be taken to prevent The Great Pacific Patch to grow
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vast area of the North Pacific Ocean‚ often referred to as the “Great Pacific Garbage Vortex” is an area heavily concentrated in marine debris such as plastic and various other chemicals leaching into marine ecosystems and creating detrimental environmental and health impacts. The garage patch is divided into an Eastern patch located off the coast of California and a Western patch found off the coast of Japan‚ that work collaboratively to spin the marine debris. The North Pacific Subtropical Convergence
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Sexy Kitty Cat Costume - Black Product #: Ru_888688The Great Pacific Garbage Patch‚ also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex‚ is a gyre of marine debris in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135°W to 155°W and 35°N and 42°N. ... Wikipedia In context The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. education.nationalgeographic.com This gyre is similar to the North Pacific Gyre in the way it traps man-made marine debris in the North
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Pacific Green Turtle In my paper I will write about characteristics of the Pacific Green Turtle‚ along with where they are located‚ lifecycle‚ what they eat and predators of the species. The Pacific Green Turtle gets the name from their “Subdermal”. Have flippers that provide them with the ability to move quickly under the ocean water. Shell of the turtle is called the “Carapace”‚ which happens to be the largest part of the animal. The shell isn’t always green‚ infact it can be a variety blend of
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The Ocean Ranger The Ocean Ranger was an offshore exploration oil drilling platform that sank in Canadian waters 315 kilometres southeast from St. John’s Newfoundland‚ on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland on February 15‚ 1982‚ with 84 crewmembers onboard. The Ocean Ranger was the largest semi-submersible‚ offshore exploration‚ oil drilling platform of the day. Built in 1976 by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries‚ it operated off the coasts of Alaska‚ New Jersey‚ Ireland‚ and in November 1980 moved
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Ocean Turns Into Plastic Island? Could Happen Have you ever wondered what happens to that plastic bottle or plastic bag that you throw away? What if I told you that the bag and the bottle are slowly killing off marine life and slowly turning our oceans into dumps? This is the case and the problem is only growing and everybody is responsible for it and everybody needs to pitch in and clean up this mess. We all use plastic because it’s convenient for us‚ but in the end it ends up killing the marine
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Oceans are polluted to a great degree due to humans using plastic and not being recycled. The article “Trashing the Oceans‚” by Thomas Hayden‚ which was published in U.S. News and World Report‚ states how the oceans are being polluted by the trash going within it. Another article “Managing Marine Plastic Pollution‚”John H. Tibbetts‚ was published in Environmental Health Perspectives‚ demonstrates how the pollution is greatly impacting the ocean. The article “Trashing oceans” utilizes ethos‚ logos
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Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans‚ caused by carbon dioxide from the atmosphere‚ Seawater is slightly basic (meaning pH > 7)‚ and the process is a shift towards pH-neutral conditions rather than a transition to acidic conditions (pH < 7). Ocean alkalinity is not changed by the process‚ or may increase over long time periods due to carbonate dissolution. An estimated 30–40% of the carbon dioxide from human activity released into the atmosphere dissolves into
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