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Hello Readers and Supporters of all healthy environment. I'm Leondra and I attend Phoenix Charter Academy in Massachusetts. In my chemistry class, we expressed a great deal of concern about the resource Patroleum running out. However, our final revolves around avertising for anything environmental that has a major issue. I chose Marine Pollution.







Here, I will be posting news surrounding Marine Pollution. Feel free to post comments on what you think or how we can solve the problem and save our sea animals.







I hope you all enjoy the site and come up with new ideas for saving potentially endangered marine species. Thank You!!!



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Concerns

My Concerns about Marine Pollution

1. Killing Sea Animals
2. Sea Animals mistake garbage for prey and die of suffocation and starvation.
3. Running out of Space and land so we dump it into the ocean
4. Disrupts fertility in Sea Animals
5. Because humans eat sea food, we consume the possible diseases that they catch underwater.

Marine Pollution: Causes and Effects

Marine Pollution

is industrial waste, garbage or biological waste that is located in the larger bodies of water.

*Crude Oil(Cause):Unintentional and purposeful emission of oil into the ocean by cargo ships.

*Oil spilling(Effect): It critically affects the life cycle of coral reefs flourishing in the ocean. Oil leakage in the ocean could congest the gills of fishes, which averts respiration. It modifies the progression of photosynthesis of marine plants, since it impedes the sunlight.

*Dumping of industrial wastes(Cause): The wastes often encompass toxic constituents such as mercury, dioxin, PCBs, PAHs and radioactive materials.

*Dumping of industrial wastes(Effect): pesticides, notably DDT, can accrue in the fatty tissue of animals. This may possibly lead to the malfunction in the procreative system of mammals and birds.

*Deposition of sediments: from mining

*Garbage(Cause): washed into the ocean after heavy rain or floods gives rise to marine fragments.

*Dumping of garbage(Effect): can diminish the oxygen dissipated in water which brings about the health of marine life being seriously affected. The sea animals including whales, seals, herrings, dolphins, penguins and sharks could perish due to deficiency of oxygen.

*Plastics(Effect): Plastic elements such as bottles and bags could strangle and asphyxiate the sea animals, as they eat them assuming that they are food. Plastics are recognized to be the foremost cause of death of turtles, as they ingest the floating bags, thinking they are jelly fish.

*Human waste(Cause): Disposal of waste, plastic and disposal of unrefined or incompletely treated bilge water into the ocean is called 'garbage dumping'.

*Toxic waste(Effect): When the detriminal poisonous wastes are discarded into the ocean, the fishes could devour the poisonous substances. When the fish is consumed by humans, this could contribute to food poisoning.

*Carbon dioxide(Cause): emanated by automobiles, due to the sweltering of fossil fuels, leads to air effluence. The unhygenic air containing carbon dioxide reaches the ocean in the form of acid rain, thereby polluting the water.

*Carbon dioxide(Effect): is precarious to marine life counting coral reefs and free-swimming algae.


Water Pollution Facts – In Numbers And Stats

Separating water pollution facts from water pollution myths is a bit like separating oxygen from hydrogen with tweezers. The facts about water pollution have gotten rather mixed up in between hype, hope, skilled political spin, and a host of other issues that have been deemed by the notorious “they” as more important.

Yet it is important to educate oneself when it comes to the water pollution issues that are facing not just the country, but the whole world.

Marine ecosystems are more than just interesting places to water ski. They are the life’s blood of the planet. Without marine ecosystems there would be no planet, and no life. That is why preserving our water is so vital to ensuring that the planet has a brighter tomorrow.

First of all, it is important to recognize that not all of the pollutants that end up in the water come from water based activities. In fact, an interesting water pollution fact reveals that only 20% of the pollutants in oceans, rivers, bays, streams, lakes, and other bodies of water come from water based activities.

The remaining 80% is derived from land based activities. This means that it is not just the responsibility of the beach goers to clean up the ocean. We are all responsible for doing what we can to protect and preserve the planet’s water supplies.

Another interesting albeit not surprising water pollution fact reveals that claiming a chunk of that 20% of pollution due to water based activities is caused by cruise ships. A one week cruise on a cruise ships yields more than a million gallons of grey water.

Grey water refers to waste water that has been tainted by soaps, detergents, and other sources of negative environmental impact but does not include human waste. These soaps and detergents from grey water can literally poison the ecosystem and pollute the water which in turn kills valuable wildlife.

These floating cities are also responsible for producing over 200,000 gallons of raw sewage, much of which is dumped during ocean transit. The bilge water, which is loaded with oils, diesel fuel, and other pollutants can account for at least 35,000 gallons of weekly contamination.

Most of us feel we have no control over how a cruise ship operates and many have never even been on one.

So let’s move some of our water pollution facts closer to home. Littering jeopardizes marine wildlife, which interrupts the balance of the ecosystem. Annually, plastic litter is responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000 marine mammals like porpoises and sea otters.

This same plastic pollution is responsible for the deaths of at least a million sea birds and waterfowl like pelicans and gulls. There is no way to accurately tally the number of fish deaths caused by plastic pollution but the estimates are up near three or four million on an annual basis. Littering and a failure to recycle plastics, even if you don’t live near the coastline, have some pretty dramatic consequences.

Worldwide, ocean pollution become just as much of a human problem as a marine problem. Water pollution facts that have been the result of numerous studies have shown that at least 50% of worldwide groundwater is unsuitable for drinking thanks to pollution.

Polluted groundwater can be pinpointed as the cause for more than 250 million diseases including cholera, typhoid, and dysentery. Of these 250 million cases, about 8 million result in death from polluted groundwater.

The world’s water pollution facts include potentially life threatening waters that are found on every continent and in nearly every country.

Asia’s rivers are filled with human waste and thus are not sanitary. Human waste encourages the development of dangerous bacteria which can be harmful to people as well as to animals.

Ireland suffers from a similar problem as 30% of her rivers are either contaminated with raw human sewage or have been polluted with fertilizer. The Sarno River, a river in Europe, has turned into a collection river for raw human waste, chemicals which have been dumped, raw waste from the agriculture, and waste from industrial and manufacturing plants.

The world’s water pollution facts leave no country untouched by the dangers of river and ocean pollution.
Numbers based on: http://scipeeps.com/water-pollution-facts-in-numbers-and-stats/

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Monday, April 5, 2010

Chinese Oil Spill Threatens Australia's Great Barrier Reef 4/5/10

Australian officials warn that the Great Barrier Reef is in grave danger of being further contaminated by oil after a Chinese ship ran aground off Queensland. The vessel is stuck on a sandbar and has already leaked at least two tons of dark sludge into the water.


A frantic clean-up operation is under way where the Chinese-registered coal ship, Shen Neng 1, is aground in an area where commercial shipping is restricted to protect the world's largest coral reef.

About two tons of oil has seeped into the water so far from the damaged vessel, creating a slick up to three kilometers long.

Aircraft have sprayed chemicals in an attempt to disperse the contamination.

There are concerns that the ship, which ran aground Saturday, may break up and spill 950 tons of oil into the sea.

Salvage experts are on board to try to prevent that from happening.

The Queensland state premier, Anna Bligh, says the emergency team will help to minimize the environmental damage.

"They are part of a major salvage team that will now begin what I think will be a very complex and delicate operation to make sure we get this vessel off the reef with as little damage as possible so that we prevent the possibility of any major oil spill," she said. "This could be one of the most complex and difficult salvage operations we have seen - certainly in Queensland maritime history and possibly Australia's," she explained.

The ship was taking coal to China when it ran into a large sand bank. Its owners could face heavy fines because the vessel was sailing through restricted waters.






Conservation groups have long been concerned that freighters travel through the Great Barrier Reef without the help of specially trained marine pilots.

The reef stretches for more than 2,500 kilometers along Australia's northeast coast. It covers an area bigger than the United Kingdom and is largest living structure on earth. It is home to hundreds of thousands of species of marine life, many of which are rare.

Scientists say its health is endangered by the effects of climate change, including warmer ocean temperatures, as well as pollution that runs off from farms.
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Chinese-Oil-Spill-Threatens-Australias-Great-Barrier-Reef-89916382.html



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