Marine pollution “Plastic never goes away, and its increasingly finding its way into our oceans and onto our beaches”(“Ocean Plastics Pollution”). Marine pollution is a hazard to humans and wildlife when consumed. Marine pollution is detrimental to our planet and its many diverse ecosystems filled with delicate wildlife. The pollution of our oceans occurs daily and is often overlooked or forgotten about when it is a major environmental issue. Marine pollution causes many species of marine life to become endangered and extinct. Marine pollution is a deadly and destructive issue. The cause of marine pollution is when trash, typically plastics, enters the ocean resulting in problems to arise. “As far as plastic entering the ocean, about 20%…
Damage to the Oceans: Marine Pollution The oceans and its wildlife are suffering from irreversible harms. The spreading of harmful materials such as oil, plastic, industrial and agricultural waste into the ocean can damage marine life and even effect people. Pollution comes from many sources such as manufacturing, litter, and even sewage. If we do not make changes quickly then we will suffer from permanent damages to Earth’s largest bodies of water and wildlife. Domestic sewage often finds its…
Marine Pollution: Causes There are many observable attributes in which we can classify the various types of marine pollution. Marine Pollution is a major setback and not only hampers the marine species but also is passed on to the land animals as well. Sea water covers around 2/3rd of the planet, which plays an important role in maintaining the essential biological and ecological balance. There has been increasing amount and the various kinds of waste products which originates from expanding…
coming from your car, the waste that is produced on land ends up reaching the oceans. Marine pollution is defined by the Group of Experts on Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution (GESAMP) as: “the introduction by man, directly or indirectly, of substances or energy into the marine environment resulting in such deleterious effects as harm to living resources, hazards to human health, hindrance to marine activities including fishing, impairment of quality for use of sea water, and reduction of…
It should be in everyones best interest to minimise the world’s marine pollution, the vast growth of pollution in our ocean is affecting marine life such as coral reefs and sea animals. With pollution on the rise it is declining our marine future, which can be a worry for the worlds oxygen with a large percentage of the planet’s oxygen coming from marine plants. Marine life stability is one of the most important issues this century. We are constantly having large numbers of sea animals dying…
“Our oceans also provide $21 trillion in food and other benefits yearly” meaning without the ocean earth would be a wasteland or maybe even non-existent. So now you know why the ocean is important let me tell you more information regarding this topic. How does ocean pollution affect marine animals and why is important? Well to start off ocean pollution is very dangerous to the marine animals that live in the ocean because they can get stuck in the litter that gets thrown into the drains or…
The Impact Of Pollution On Marine Wildlife Marine wildlife has been in existence for over million of years. Researchers and Marine Biologists have been trying to show the importance of the studies of how pollution impacts the lives of many marine wildlife and their habitat. It is necessary that we find out what pollution is doing to these poor marine animals and find a way to start making our marine wildlife clean and healthy. The purpose of this literature review is to provide research to the…
Ocean Pollution Have you ever thought where all of that extra trash goes? Or where do they take the trash to? Well here is where they put it, in the ocean.This action affects Marine life very seriously. And it affects humans to. Whatever the fish eats, your eating too. Ocean pollution is when, us humans, dump billions of trash into the ocean. We dump trash into the ocean without even thinking about it twice. We think that it will dissolve into the ocean. But really, it is being eaten by the…
Therefore, without coral reefs there will be no life cycle in the ocean (Environment 911, 2011). According to Marine Animals, more than 100,000 sea animals die every year due to ocean pollution, one cause is ingesting plastic. As a result of this, the animal will feel full because the nondigestible plastic will remain in the animal’s stomach taking up space for the animal’s real food source, this can cause malnutrition, dehydration, and starvation (Save Our Shores). In addition, if the…
2014 Working to Reduce Marine Pollution “You wouldn 't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we 'll do it one day. That 's how negligent we are” Ian Rankin once wrote in his book Blood Hunt. All the time people neglect the ocean without even thinking about it and this must change for the good of people as well as plants, animals, and the environment. Marine pollution is a global problem and people contribute very much to the matter. Since the effects of pollution are so great, people…