Sentences with phrase «of ocean pollution»

In the mid-1990s, concerned by reports of ocean pollution in other countries, a few scientists in the Environmental Health Division of the county's Department of Public Health asked for money to monitor the ocean water off our shores, but the Board of Supervisors consistently voted against them.

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.

«Urban runoff is a number one source of ocean pollution no matter where someone lives.

Quick identification and containing of ocean pollution is crucial for the health of ocean organisms and humans too.

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.

My intention for this project is to make the monumental issue of ocean pollution more relatable.

Eco-adventurer David de Rothschild, a 2009 Turning the Tide participant, is scheduled to participate via live satellite feed from his Plastiki catamaran as he navigates the Pacific on his quest to raise awareness of ocean pollution.

Another source of ocean pollution by sewage - related waste is the disposal of biosolids, a semisolid byproduct of the sewage treatment process, often called sludge.

Contrary to popular myth that a major cause of ocean pollution is oil spilled from ships, most of it is from land - based litter

Not exact matches

Coral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acidic.

Sourced from Bureo, an emerging venture developing innovative solutions to prevent ocean plastic pollution, this is the first tangible product of its new partnership and marks the first product available to purchase from the consortium of companies under the NextWave initiative.

It means the more rapid use of fossil fuels, the more rapid exploitation of forests, soils, and oceans, the greater pollution of the atmosphere.

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.

Much pollution, of the ocean, for example, is caused in the process of transportation, both by accidents and by standard practices.

Homosexual relationships are unnatural as is lying, envy, jealousy, anger, swearing, injustice, irritability, gluttony, drunkenness, rudeness, bullying, torture, theft, pride, foolishness, slander, self embellishment, ignoring the poor, destitute, widows, the lonely, thirsty, hungry and naked, servitude, slavery, low wages, exploitation, pornography, pollution of the atmosphere, drinking water, the oceans and land, greed, licentiousness, unprincipled actions etc. all these things separate us from the love of Christ and therefore stop us from being Christ like.

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..

Many brands produce their spirulina in toxic waters, and since our oceans are filled with mercury and toxins on so many accounts due to climate change and pollution, it's highly important to choose a brand of spirulina that has direct control over the growth and control of the production of their spirulina products.

By Charlotte Taylor, marketing manager, Beatson Clark WITH plastic filling our oceans, and awareness growing of the need to protect our planet from pollution,..

Of all the threats facing our oceans — from pollution from shipping to agricultural run - off and fishmeal production — one stands out as the worst.

Tackling ocean pollution is one of the topics to be discussed in upcoming editions of the Sustainable Foods Summit and Sustainable Cosmetics Summit.

In recent years, the fight against ocean plastic pollution has gone from a preoccupation of marine scientists to a movement embraced by everyone from schoolchildren to Queen Elizabeth II, galvanized by images of trash - strewn seas and sea turtles choking on plastic straws and other consumer castaways.

MLS, Adidas and Parley are partnering to raise awareness of ocean plastic pollution, and the league's young audience is perfect for the project.

Due to the pollution of the oceans, wild - caught fish often bring with them the risk of contamination.

With its new Shedd the straw campaign, Shedd hopes to inspire Chicagoans to remove single - use plastic straws from their everyday life to reduce the amount of plastic pollution that enters our oceans, lakes and rivers.

The pollution in our ocean, rivers, and lakes threatens nearly every species of aquatic life, including sharks.

The sculptures represent the first installment of a traveling exhibit, Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea, which illustrates how plastic pollution has become one of the gravest threats facing ocean and freshwater animals, while helping the public understand what they can do to be a part of the solution.

With its new SheddTheStraw campaign, Shedd hopes to inspire Chicagoans to remove single - use plastic straws from their everyday life to reduce the amount of plastic pollution that enters our oceans, lakes and rivers.

Shedd Aquarium is one of 19 accredited aquariums across the United States announcing the joint creation of a new Aquarium Conservation Partnership (ACP) focused on addressing one of the gravest threats facing ocean and freshwater animals — plastic pollution.

Using only 100 % recyclable materials, students from preschool to high school created the wreaths after learning how recycling or using reusable products can help protect our planet's oceans, lakes and rivers from the harms of plastic pollution.

Mine and future generations have now been left with mountains of debt, oceans that have been treated like toilets, air pollution, deforestation, extinction, not to mention a powder keg waiting to go off at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.

«We realised that our buoys are in fact a kind of marine debris,» says Nikolai Maximenko of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, who collaborated with 5 Gyres researchers to identify which areas of the ocean should have especially high levels of plastic pollution.

We are seeing nitrate pollution in the Gulf of Mexico and a lot of our coastal oceans near the mouth of rivers that are downstream from Big Ag production regions that use a lot of fertilizers.

You could argue [on] the climate change [one], but [on nutrient] pollution we have used so much [fertilizer] and so much nitrogen compounds are loose in the environment, it is hard to recognize our coastal oceans anymore; of the species that are gone [and] that kind of thing.

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.

Changes in ocean salinity, nutrient runoff and other pollution can cause small - scale bleaching, but scientists say the widespread global bleaching this year is a symptom of unusual ocean warming.

Two Atlantic Ocean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and polluOcean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and polluocean acidification and pollution.

Food production is rising sharply, requiring more carbon - based fuels and nitrogen - based fertilizers, both of which exacerbate global warming, river and ocean pollution, and a host of other ills.

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.»

But current evidence suggests that plastic pollution is as prevalent in land and freshwater ecosystems as it is in the oceans, where it's found «from the equator to the poles,» says Rochman, author of a separate commentary on the state of plastic pollution research published in the April 6 Science.

Water pollution is a large set of adverse effects upon water bodies (lakes, rivers, oceans, groundwater) caused by human activities.

«We've shown that under clean and humid conditions, like those that exist over the ocean and some land in the tropics, tiny aerosols have a big impact on weather and climate and can intensify storms a great deal,» said Fan, an expert on the effects of pollution on storms and weather.

But now researchers appear to have a straightforward explanation for the contradiction: sulphate pollution generated in industrialised areas starts a chain reaction which changes the pattern of climates to bring colder winds to the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.

Daniel Rosenfield and his colleagues at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem studied satellite data of air masses over the Indian Ocean, which contain large numbers of air pollution particles blown off the surrounding continents.

Due to their voracious appetites and their place at the top of the ocean food chain, orcas are very susceptible to pollution and chemicals

In a study published in the journal Science, researchers found that a brown pollution cloud over south Asia and the Indian Ocean is largely the result of burning wood and dung for cooking and heating.

This newest threat follows on the heels of overfishing, sediment deposition, nitrate pollution in some areas, coral bleaching caused by global warming, and increasing ocean acidity caused by carbon emissions.

«If the oceans were not salty,» the authors write, «air pollution would remain much longer in the lower troposphere and spread to much greater areas of the oceans.»

Reducing certain kinds of air pollution could limit the rise of ocean waters and buy time to address CO2 emissions.

Marine plastic pollution slowly degrades and has spread to every corner of the world's oceans, from remote islands to the ocean floor.

Kerry further outlined the impacts of pollution from farm runoff, which causes algae blooms and dead zones in the oceans, the massive buildup of plastic waste, and illegal fishing.