Marine pollution

extensive human activities have affected these oceans in a very disastrous manner. Marine pollution also known as Ocean pollution, is the introduction of harmful substances such as waste from industries, effluents, sewage, oil , agricultural waste etc into the ocean (Derraik,2002). The oceans are a known home to a large variety of flora and fauna. The pollution has started affecting the marine habitat adversely. Marine pollution not only affects the seas and oceans but the whole earth (Islam…

Ocean Pollution is a serious issue in today's global politics. The balance of Earth's ecosystem is put in jeopardy when the ocean is polluted. Ocean Pollution includes everything from the extreme to the small scale: oil spills, acid dumping and plastic pollution-- human activities and basic carelessness. Problems evolving from ocean pollution directly harm marine life and the Earth's many valuable resources. Ocean Pollution is a long-term problem that has expanded over the past few decades. In…

ecosystem and we humans keep ruining it which not only hurts the marine animals, but also us. The reason why the food chain in the ocean is so stable is because of whales. For example, they feed on 40 million krills to stop them from overpopulating. They are a huge help to the ecosystem and can prevent global warming. Despite all these helpful things the whales do for us, they are endangered because of human activities such as ocean pollution. There’s no doubt that these whales need protection. …

ocean overfishing, destruction of habitat, and pollution come to mind. However, until recently plastic, an emerging contaminant has gone unnoticed. Therefore, today scientists are still learning about the input and impacts of plastic into the ocean environment (Barnes, 2009). Plastics are found everywhere in the forms of milk jugs, candy wrappers, grocery bags, bottle caps, and drinking straws just to name a few. Humans on average generate…

killing a large number of fish communities and marine life, and also causing water-borne disease to human’s life, water pollution also might leads to Eutrophication. Eutrophication is an over-enrichment of water with nutrients, usually nitrogen or phosphorus (“Water Pollution”). There are a lot causes of Eutrophication and changes in acidity of water but the main thing that leads to the occurrence of the Eutrophication is silt and chemical pollution. This occur when all fertilizers, herbicides,…

Ocean Pollution: A Manmade Crisis In modern society, people do not give a second thought to what is going on in the environment or the changes occurring around them. Many people live with the notion of “out of sight, out of mind” but how much longer can that kind of thinking go on before it is too late? Ocean pollution has been a problem since the Roman times. Which means it has been going on for roughly 2,000 years. 2,000 years of polluting the seas, endangering the marine life, and even…

Last week we worked on ocean currents. We worked on a lot of things about water pollution. We went over things about acid rain, we went over stuff about sewage and wastewater, we went over stuff about industrial waste. Also during this week we went over oil pollution, eutrophication, radioactive waste, marine dumping, and also underground storage leaks. We all split into groups and made a presentation about one of them. After that we made a google document about a reflection on the presentations…

Animals are affected by so many man made problems and because of the problems humans make animals go extinct or are slowly dying. Sea turtles are vulnerable to ocean pollution at all stages of their life from being eggs to swimming in the ocean. Toxic metals may concentrate in the liver and the kidney of sea turtles. Pollutants can cause immediate harm to sea turtles through direct contact or over time it builds up in their tissue and can lead to immunosuppression resulting into disease or…

Whereas pollution is very apparent in water, the increase in death rate in aquatic animals are rising every year. People under the poverty line are not able to have access to clean water increasing the rate of disease. This should be addressed by the government because, if pollution increases day by day, it can slowly start to affect everyone in the world, increasing the death rate. We, as the environmental and public works committee, believe that water pollution is affecting the nation and it…

Ocean Pollution Over half of sea turtles have ingested an outrageous amount of plastic and lots of them have even died from the marine pollution that's getting put into the ocean. A lot of animals are getting killed/injured by ocean pollution and its not just litter that's harming them. Many chemicals can also be released from runoff or even marine mammal carcasses. One of the animals that is getting harmed by the litter is sea turtles. A large amount of sea turtles are getting killed by eating…