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    Why Shipbreaking Is Bad

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    Ships are the global transportation of people and cargo by sea, but it can also be extremely harmful to the planet. The reason why ships can be extremely harmful to the planet is shipbreaking. Shipbreaking is when rundown ships around 25-30 years old are broken down to metals for reuse. I encourage to reinforce stronger environmental and labour laws on shipbreaking because it can lead to chemicals and oil leaking out to sea. Workers who are also involved in shipbreaking have zero to little…

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    discussing what an ocean dead zone is, what are the sources of pollution that create dead zones, what chemicals are involved, and the environmental and economical impacts of ocean dead zones. An ocean dead zone is a low oxygen area where most of the marine life dies or leaves. Ocean dead zones are also known as hypoxic zones because the term hypoxic means low levels of oxygen. Ocean dead zones have been around and occurring for hundreds of thousands of years, but recently they have been…

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    is affecting the environment. The trash in the ocean is causing much marine life to be ether harmed or even worse killed. One of the main things that is causing this is plastic. In todays time plastic is used for everything it is used in our drinking bottles and all the way down to the soap we use to wash our bodies. Because of these things not being properly disposed of it is finding its way back to the ocean and is killing marine wildlife. In the chapter Humes talks about Mary Crowley who is…

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    an environmental activist and the captain of the ship Kaisei, which means ocean planet. Crowley is also one of the founders of Project Kaisei. This foundation working to find out how much trash is actually in the ocean, how that is effecting the marine life, and how to reduce the amount of trash going into the ocean. What Crowley finds is shocking, but totally expected. Fish and whales were found to have plastic in their digestive systems. Crowley also discovered that a lot of the trash…

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    Hooded Plover Extinction

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    Introduction The purpose of this investigation is to help show how people could help save the Hooded Plovers from extinction. People tend to think that the beaches are just covered in sand. For many years now, people have been visiting beaches around South Australia; and which has out a negative impact on the flora and fauna. The Hooded Plovers are highly endangered. There are less then 800 Hooded Plover in South Australia, and only 7,000 in Australia. The main reason that the Hooded Plovers are…

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    Approximately 8m tons of plastic ends up in the oceans every year. Marine life is in serious danger with the amount of the plastic in the oceans, studies show by 2050 their will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. The plastic is killing and if not hurting the marine life. “But we also need to prevent plastic getting into the ocean in the first place. If we don’t manage the influx of plastics we will be the garbagemen…

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    A World of Plastic In the hour long documentary, TOXIC: Garbage Island by Thomas Morton, a group of adults venture to the North Pacific gyre for 21 days to find a spinning current with tons of chemicals and plastics that will not biodegrade in order to show society how serious plastic pollution is. Throughout the documentary, the VICE team documents the plastic that has polluted the Pacific Ocean. The main argument that is used in the documentary is that most Americans do not think about…

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    My research topic for my secondary source paper is plastic pollution. My research question is what impact has plastic pollution had on our oceans in the past 25 years. My family has always been big into traveling and when we do you will typically find us in the water snorkeling. The place that stands out most in my memory is Hawaii; the water was crystal clear, the coral bright, and the turtles would swim right next to you. This is where I fell in love with the sea, but this is also where I…

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    National Ocean Policy

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    Laws are being made to try to prevent pollution from land, sea, and air to protect endangered species, and to try to build marine protected areas. Pollution has been harming organisms all over the world and will continue to harm these species without the effort to help stop polluting the oceans. Oceans absorb 80% of greenhouse gases and 50% of the carbon dioxide released into…

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    mile trek for the crew of thirteen included: Captain: Clive Cosby, 5 Gyres founder: Anna Cummins, Communications: Stiv Wilson, Pro-Surfer: Mary Osborne, Expedition Leader: Dale Selvan, Environmental Cleanup Coalition founder: Richard Sundance Owen, Marine Scientist: Bonnie Monteleone, Ocean Activist: Mary Maxwell, 5 Gyres founder: Dr. Marcus Erickson,…

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