Sentences with phrase «ocean pollution problem»

The ocean pollution problem can not be solved by one or a few individuals.

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Ocean noise pollution is a known problem for many marine mammals, which use their hearing for survival tasks like navigation and finding food.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

Marine scientists have long known that plastic pollution in the ocean is a huge problem.

These sorts of problems have led Charles Moore, an oceanographer and racing boat captain who played a significant role in discovering and publicizing the great Pacific Garbage Patch, to argue that plastic pollution has become a more urgent problem for ocean life than climate change.

With water pollution and temperatures on the rise, toxic algae cause serious problems nowadays for inland waters and for the oceans.

One of the problems it faces is plastic pollution which is all too prevalent in our seas and oceans.

With an estimated five trillion pieces of plastic in the oceans, and climate change taking center stage in global discourse, mainstream America is addressing the need for sustainable solutions to the world's growing pollution problem.

Options feel limited for many of us when it comes to solving problems as big as the pollution of the ocean, which is a major side effect of our way of living and consuming.

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.

I have a sort of mental chart with lots of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora of problems (& goods — like power), acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows of good (some bad) coming out of measures to abate GW.

Click on this slide show for a zooming look at «Gyre,» his effort to bring meaning to the diffuse and distant problem of plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean.

The BBC's environment correspondent Richard Black investigates if climate change is diverting attention away from other environmental problems such as air pollution, acid oceans and species extinction.

But single - use plastics, which you use for a few minutes and then discard, have created a major pollution problem - our ocean is filling up with plastic trash, choking fish and marine life and even entering the human food chain.

It found this month significant progress in just four: eliminating chlorofluorocarbons that punched a hole in the Earth's protective ozone layer; the removal of lead from gasoline that caused human health problems; improved access to clean water; and boosting research to reduce ocean pollution.

This week, the United Nations Environment and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) held the 6th International Marine Debris Conference in San Diego to discuss the problem of plastic pollution that is plaguing our ocean.

I have already made it clear elsewhere that the additional resistor effect of human CO2 would be insignificant in relation to that from the rest of the air and the oceans together with the varying solar and oceanic heating and cooling effects but we still need to know for sure whether it is significant at all over periods of less than several hundred years because that may be the time we need to solve our energy, pollution, resource and population problems.

Plastic pollution in our oceans is endangering marine life and ecosystems, so the Center for Biological Diversity is tackling the problem.

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.

In her time in office, Congresswoman Bonamici has worked to address the problem of ocean pollution — in particular the challenges inflicted upon the Oregon coast by debris from the 2012 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, leaving her district with unsightly beaches, high cleanup costs and the threat of invasive species.

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.

Replacing single - use drink containers with a reusable bottle not only cuts down on trash and problems like plastic pollution in the ocean, but it also reduces the amount of new resources and energy needed for the manufacturing process.

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.

But the thing to remember about the problem of plastic ocean pollution is this we can fix it!

This is important to Oceana because air pollution from coal eventually ends up in the ocean, making the water acidic and raising the water temperature, which causes other problems for ocean life.

While climate change certainly played a role in precipitating this crisis, most of the problems afflicting the world's oceans - overfishing, resource extraction, pollution - have been well documented for many years, if not decades.

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.

To combat the growing problem of plastic pollution in the ocean, the Scottish government plans to introduce legislation to ban the manufacture and sale of plastic - stemmed cotton buds.