concerned about Global warming‚ ocean acidification‚ and pollution. Scientist are mainly concerned with global warming because it’s affecting our food and water supply. Pollution is also a serious issue that scientist are researching because scientist still don’t know how much it’s affecting our food chain. Ocean acidification is a serious issue too because it’s causing parts of the ocean to unsaturate. A reason for ocean acidification is excess of carbon dioxide making the ocean more acidic than what it
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**List the more common ecological consequences to pollution in our oceans **Define sustainable yield **Define Exclusive Economic Zone **List the benefits and drawbacks of aquaculture **Define and explain the causes of eutrophication‚ red tides **List the main causes of ocean pollution **Define by-catch **Define precautionary principle **List the major consequences of global climate change on our ocean ecosystems **List the main ways we use global sea catch Ted talks: How I
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Since 2009‚ Plastic Pollution Coalition has been building a global alliance – refuse a single-use plastic. Plastic Pollution Coalition is a growing global alliance of organizations‚ businesses‚ and leaders working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans‚ animals‚ and the environment. The bottles used to package most brands of water are made of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)‚ indicated by a number 1‚ PET or PETE on the bottle’s bottom. According to some estimates
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* PLASTIC POLLUTION | | 0.0 (0) | Written by rashmi October 06‚ 2010 Hits: 368 0 Cash Credits: 25.00 Editor: Deepti The pollution that is caused by organic polymer materials such as plastic on the environment thereby having harmful effect on human being is known as plastic pollution. Plastic mainly can be divided in two broader classifications namely. * Thermoplastics * Thermosetting plastics Both these varieties of plastics are not biodegradable that cannot
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Are we killing our oceans? This is the proposed question of Dahr Jamail in his article Oceans of pollution. He details several environmental pollution issues facing the waters of the world‚ from large floating plastic islands to hypoxic zones in which sea life cannot breathe. His thesis is that humanity’s inability to deal with plastic waste is causing harmful problems in the ocean to rise‚ which could lead to serious negative effects on the planet. He conveys the current scientific consensus and
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changes in climate can take hundreds or even millions of years. Plastic pollution in lakes and oceans affect climate change because it harms air quality and creates ocean toxicity. Plastic contributes to ecosystem disruption and habitat destruction. In my project I will be testing the water and shoreline in Kootenay lake to see how much plastic is polluting our lake. Scientists are trying to come up with ways to combat plastic pollution. A team of Japanese researchers described a species of bacteria
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OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION: A GLOBAL TRAGEDY FOR OUR OCEANS AND SEA LIFE Plastic never goes away. And it’s increasingly finding its way into our oceans and onto our beaches. In the Los Angeles area alone‚ 10 metric tons of plastic fragments — like grocery bags‚ straws and soda bottles — are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day. Today billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences making up about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces. Plastics pollution has a direct and
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Campaign to make awareness about ocean pollution Background The current environmental issue of ocean pollution in Dubai which is spreading rapidly due to lack of awareness. Gulf countries depend heavily on seawater desalination for drinking water. But experts warns that pollution of gulf water could soon make it impossible to treat seawater for human consumption. According to ram Prasad a oil and gas expert in Dubai claims that increasing urbanisation led to dumping of sewage‚ hazardous waste
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Ocean pollution is affecting the ocean and marine life in a negative way. Ocean pollution comes in forms from oil spills to a dust. In passage two it says‚”Ocean pollution occurs when potentially harmful or harmful sources of pollution reach the water.” Which provides a reason ocean pollution is harmful from potentially to harmful sources. Ocean pollution kills marine and sea animals and also seabirds. Ocean pollution is having a negative on sea life because it kills more than one million seabirds
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IMPORTANCE OF PLASTIC:- Plastics are a subset of materials known as Polymers. These are composed of large molecules formed by joining many smaller molecules together (monomers). Other kinds of polymers are fibres‚ elastomers‚ surface coating and biopolymers‚ such as cellulose‚ proteins and nucleic acids. Plastics owe their name to their ability to be shaped to form articles of practical value by various conversion and forming processes. These are some peculiar properties of plastics materials‚ which
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