We are destroying the world that we live in more and more each day. Although humans may not be the only reason for polluted oceans they are the main reason; because of the plastic in the oceans, marine animals are dying and the water is contaminated. The Pacific Garbage Patch was discovered by a man named Charles Moore. He is from Long Beach, California and grew up near the water. His family spent a great deal of time in the water and were always sailing to different places.
Recent scientific studies have found that the fish developed gross deformities such as extra fins, or suffered from retarded development. Wildlife was also affected as thousands of birds and otters were killed as a direct result of the spill. When oil sticks to a bird's feathers, it causes them to mat and separate, impairing waterproofing and exposing the animal's sensitive skin to extremes temperatures. This led to many oil-soaked birds losing
They are areas so overloaded with pollutants that they have difficulty sustaining any life.” Dead Zones are created by fertilizer and pollution run off from our very own backyards. These harmful chemicals use our river and stream systems as an easy alley-way type access to our coastal areas. Because of all the chemical run offs from farms that are near the coastline, countries that thrive off of agricultural activity have extremely high contents of population in the ocean surrounding them. With all the chemicals being dumped into the ocean, this creates large patches of ocean along the coastline that have absolutely no oxygen, therefore earning the nickname “dead zone”. Due to the Dead Zone’s lack of oxygen, no living organism can survive in any given patch of that type of water.
Plastic bags take many lifetimes to biodegrade and their contents are harmful to the environment. Plastic bags are one of the most common items recovered in coastal clean ups. Animals such as turtles often mistake the plastic bags for jellyfish and eat the bags, resulting in death. Local governments have started, and should continue, to implement taxes and charges in an effort to reduce the unnecessarily high consumption of these harmful plastic bags. Why the Tax or Charge Works Plastic bag waste in Europe is a major problem.
This affects the central nervous system of fish so that they are paralyzed and can't breathe. As a result, red tide blooms often result in dead fish washing up on beaches. Red tides often occur when fresh water runoff creates a stratified surface layer above colder nutrient rich waters. Fast growing algae quickly strip away nutrients in the upper layer, leaving nitrogen
It is a problem because the level of water population we have now can kill the animals within the water. Some of these animals we use to feed many people, so it messes with our own food supply. If this is not stopped people may kill off all oceans and the very food supply we need. This would leave many people, who eat fish, to stare, if fish was there main means of food. Recently people, or human activities have contributed to this problem because not only are we still dumping, we are also still drilling in these water sources.
A reef started to form over 6 thousand years ago. While it is still forming today, it might not be for long. Slowly but surely this great reef is falling apart and losing many kinds of animals. There are three main reasons for the deterioration and changing of The Great Barrier Reef: climate change, human activities, and endangered species. We all know some of the causes of global warming: aerosols, foam cups, fumes from cars; they’re all put into the category of CFCs.
Clown fish are so heavily dependent on the reefs due to the fact that the anemone live only in these areas. Increases in the acidity level are another detrimental factor coming from the global climate change. This inhibits the clown fish's ability to detect chemical signals that
The native fish and the cichlid are more than half instinct. The vanishing of most of the cichlids that ate the algae caused the population of algae to grow and increase drastically. Because of this major increase in algae, when the algae died it caused the level of the dissolved oxygen at the bottom of the lake to disintegrate ( Raven, Berg, & Hassenzahl, 2010). Which interned made it an oxygen free zone. This meant that any fish that would try to swim down to the bottom of the lake would die due to lack of oxygen.
Ocean pollutants comes from lands It seriously affects the life cycle of coral reefs thriving in the ocean. The oil spilled in the ocean could clog up the gills of fishes, thereby preventing respiration. It affects the process of photosynthesis of marine plants, since it blocks the sunlight. (Hartmut Frank et al., 2001,para 4)What is it? It is the pollutant of ocean.Most ocean pollution begins on land.