Sentences with phrase «ocean pollution into»

That was the question answered by the development of The Solar Plastic Kiln, which uses the power of the sun to melt common plastic ocean pollution into useful materials like bricks or boards.

Not exact matches

Another company preventing ocean pollution, Bureo skateboards are made by collecting fishing nets and turning them into premium boards.

But then she'll have to deal with overfishing, pollution (all the crap we pump into the oceans and the floating islands of plastic), annoying speedboats, etc..

In the analysis — this was [all] originally published as a scientific paper in Nature last fall and then we see it again here in Scientific American in a more a distilled form — what we show is that in terms of climate change, in terms of nitrogen pollution into our waterways and oceans, and in terms of biodiversity loss, we have already caused irreparable harm to the planet.

Pollutants in urban settings are many and of a wide variety, and all of them - if you don't treat and successfully reduce the pollution - are getting into the receiving water, be it a river or lake or the ocean.»

«To save coral reefs, we need to transform our energy system into one that does not use the atmosphere and oceans as waste dumps for carbon dioxide pollution.

Mercury pollution, from sources such as gold mining and power generation, ends up in the atmosphere and then the oceans, where it is transformed into methylmercury, which is as toxic as the element.

The data on pollution of the northeast Atlantic, which includes the North Sea and the Irish Sea, do not include fallout into the oceans from air pollution, which some scientists believe may be as great as waterborne pollution.

It accounted for atmospheric pollution effects that have been cooling Earth by reflecting sunlight into space, and for the slow response time of the ocean.

Iron particles generated by cities and industry are being dissolved by human - made air pollution and washed into the sea — potentially increasing the amount of greenhouse gases that the world's oceans can absorb, a new study suggests.

They warn that more development also could increase the harmful pollution flowing into the swamp and ocean.

Some water pollution starts also as air pollution, which settles into waterways and oceans, according to the United States» National Ocean Service.

In addition to the issue that plastic gets broken down into microscopic pieces, plastic pollution is especially hard to confine because it travels easily and quickly with the ocean currents.

Just think of all the pollution that seeped into the ocean that were the remaining contents of the bottles.

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.

Fossil fuels have many alternative uses that do not involve dumping carbon pollution into the atmosphere, such as petrochemicals, and should be used far more wisely if indeed we consider them to be precious — so that we save the climate, oceans and air pollution and don't scrape the barrel dry.

The carbon pollution we continue pumping into the atmosphere is already causing our air and oceans to warm, glaciers and ice sheets to melt, and sea levels to rise at alarming rates.

and there are living things that release pollution into the ocean called «smokers» they are plants that don't use photosynthesis because they are very far underneath the ocean.

PACific Dust EXperiment «The long range transport of dust and anthropogenic aerosols (e.g, black carbon, organics and sulfates, and air pollution from Eurasia, across the Pacific Ocean, into North America is one of the most wide spread and major pollution events on the planet.

The water quality at our beaches is threatened by pollution from urban and agricultural runoff, sewage spills and overflows, and waste discharged into the ocean by industry, sewage treatment plants and power plants.

If the little bits eventually get into a waterway, a lake or the ocean it will add to the huge amount of plastic pollution that is playing havoc with water - life.

After college, she worked around the world in the sports industry, managing projects for organizations including the PGA TOUR, Ryder Cup, NFL and the World Surf League before shifting her career into ocean conservation with a focus on marine plastic pollution.

Vast swaths of the world's oceans are turning into «dead zones» as global warming and pollution strips them of oxygen, threatening marine life on a massive scale, a new study...

If you take into consideration the ships that would be bringing the coal halfway around the world and the immense amount of pollution they pump directly into the oceans, the number increases dramatically.

The world's oceans are getting warmer as we pump more and more carbon pollution into the atmosphere.

No one knows exactly how much radioactive pollution has entered the ocean, but most experts say it should be rapidly diluted once it spreads out into the Pacific and fish caught outside the immediate area would pose little health concern.

The second group, arguing that «running water purifies itself» (the more current slogan among sanitary engineers: «the solution to pollution is dilution»), argued for piping sewage into lakes, rivers, and oceans.

Considering that the 1950s were the time when great production of disposable products began and taking into account the current levels of plastic pollution in the ocean, he thought that the presence of this material in the water may have something to do with this.

The Baicao is a tributary to the Yangtze River, China's longest and perhaps most important river and the single largest source of pollution flowing into the Pacific Ocean.

It's a mixture of childhood family holidays and an idea of a pollution free peninsula of land jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by lots of lovely fish.