Plus, Pharrell Williams and G - Star RAW launch a mobile game to raise awareness
about ocean pollution.
Not exact matches
«You hear
about all the bad things we're doing to the planet, to the
ocean: the
pollution, overfishing, global climate change,» Lowe says.
Individual leaders in the corporate world may be deeply concerned
about species diversity, global warming, the
pollution of the
oceans, the loss of forest cover, and many other matters.
Strange though nothing mentioned
about off shore drilling and the
pollutions that result to
ocean lives deaths and extinctions and much as those fishermen!!?
People should learn more
about these because if people know more
about pollution in the
ocean, then they will know more
about how to stop
pollution.
Barrows, who has been studying microfiber
pollution in
oceans for more than five years, wanted to learn more
about what's happening upstream in freshwater.
The calculations suggest that the
ocean contains
about 60,000 to 80,000 tons of mercury from
pollution, with almost two - thirds residing in water shallower than a thousand meters, the team reports online today in Nature.
Surprisingly high
pollution levels were observed over the entire northern Indian
Ocean toward the Intertropical Convergence Zone at
about 6 ° S.
For every 10 joules of energy that our greenhouse gas
pollution traps here on Earth,
about 9 of them end up in an
ocean.
However, everyone can do something right now
about ocean plastic
pollution by avoiding single - use plastic items and recycling plastic upon disposal.
People have been concerned for some time
about rising plastic
pollution in
oceans and lakes.
One other thing nobody is talking
about is the fact that fish are going extinct from the
oceans, and factory fish farms are creating huge amounts of coastal
pollution and fish are still going extinct in the
oceans because they need to catch SO many smaller fish to feed the salmon.
Parley is a company that is fighting to raise awareness
about the
pollution of the
oceans.
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Pupils are asked to consider the challenges this creature faces in its quest for food and hear David Attenborough's warning
about pollution in our seas and
oceans as brought to our attention in the Blue Planet series.
Life has spent
about 3.8 billion years on Earth, and its ecosystems are organized through strategies based on constant trial and error, hence we can learn many lessons for the building of a new human evolutionary phase capable of ending poverty, hunger, inequality between countries, gender inequality, irresponsible consumption, unsustainable industrialization,
pollution of the seas and
oceans, and so on.
Now, it's easy to say that
about every place in the beautiful Pacific
Ocean but thanks to a low - level of visitors and
pollution, the seas of Micronesia have been allowed to thrive.
As Game and Level Designer for this game
about whales and the
ocean I got the chance to do tons of research on humpback whales, their navigation, digestion, and human interference like noise
pollution, whale hunting, and more.
Making these idle debris into something more appealing to the eye, Duran created a series of installations to draw attention to the issue of
ocean pollution and raise a wider awareness
about environmental problems globally.
The Plastics Breakdown Making sure the
oceans are kept clean is vital conservation effort, but nobody really thinks
about how much the
pollution, specifically plastic
pollution, affects the oceanic wildlife.
In the future, when fossil fuels are no longer the leading source of energy around the world and oil platforms aren't pumping oil from beneath the
ocean floor, we won't have to worry
about oil spills, but unfortunately,
ocean pollution from spills, leaks and other sources is still a reality.
Incidentally, I have been unable to find out if the models which are producing the GW scenarios include some allowance for the fact that the
ocean / atmosphere interface (the boundary layer, so called, an irritating nomenclature as the words already have a technical meaning) was changed drastically from
about 1850 onwards by surfactant and oil spill
pollution as the petrochemical industry and petrol engine technologies began to hit their stride.
I should be able to write
about this topic as I would write
about anything else related to plastic, things like Bisphenol - A, bottled water, PVC, phthalates,
ocean plastic
pollution, and yet until now, I couldn't.
Disputes within climate science concern the nature and magnitude of feedback processes involving clouds and water vapor, uncertainties
about the rate at which the
oceans take up heat and carbon dioxide, the effects of air
pollution, and the nature and importance of climate change effects such as rising sea level, increasing acidity of the
ocean, and the incidence of weather hazards such as floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves.
An organization whose mission is to «conduct research and communicate
about the global impact of plastic
pollution in the world's
oceans and employ strategies to eliminate the accumulation of plastic
pollution in the 5 subtropical gyres» is 5 Gyres.
Surfrider chapters across the country engage the local restaurant community by educating
about plastic
pollution, consulting businesses on best practices for the
oceans, and help them transition to materials that will truly biodegrade and cause the least amount of harm to our treasured coastlines and
oceans.
He started by writing an illustrated children's book called «All the Way to the
Ocean»
about the effects of storm drain
pollution.
The book is very comprehensive, containing the abundant information
about the
ocean and why it is so important to minimize plastic
pollution.
Ecologists and activists have been vocal
about the problem of plastic
pollution for years: plastic
pollution invades our communities as «litter,» harms wildlife, and 8.8 million tons of it end up in our waterways and
oceans every year.
He shows no indication of caring
about the
ocean acidification that the burning of fossil fuels is causing, nor the many deaths and serious diseases caused by the air
pollution from burning coal to generate power.
Of course there are many ways to look at this issue; there's much to be said
about the negative externalities associated with industrial agriculture because, as he notes, food production «exacerbate [s] global warming, river and
ocean pollution, and a host of other ills.»
In addition to promoting awareness
about the plastic
pollution problem threatening the world's
oceans, Durán is also involved in educational programs and helps to organize beach clean - ups.
We've talked
about robo - fish collecting
ocean pollution readings before, but this thing is just plain flat amazing!
Of course, given the dire state of plastic
pollution in our
oceans, the kinds of numbers we are talking
about here are hardly commensurate to the size of the problem.
About 90 % or more of the rest of the committed warming of 1.6 °C will unfold during the 21st century, determined by the rate of the unmasking of the aerosol cooling effect by air
pollution abatement laws and by the rate of release of the GHGs - forcing stored in the
oceans.
But the thing to remember
about the problem of plastic
ocean pollution is this we can fix it!
As an ecotour leader at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, I was simply excited to find one of these intact carcasses so that I could use the opportunity to talk
about the environmental problem of marine plastic
pollution for
ocean ecosystems and the wildlife dependant on them.
An astronomer or a mineralogist would not necessarily know more
about climate change,
ocean acidification and the health impacts of air
pollution than a well informed layman.
Increasingly I write
about environmental issues such as air
pollution and
ocean protection.
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