The North Pacific Gyre: Recycling is Dire There’s a new continent in the Pacific Ocean! This continent has been called many things from the great pacific garbage patch to Trash Island. This swirling mass of plastic bags plastic bottles and other non perishable items has been accumulating in the Gyre for years. Caught in the northern Pacific currents that form the N. Pacific Gyre. This Largely covered area of plastic remnants that have been broken down to small pieces have a damning effect on the wildlife that depends on the Gyres currents for food.
Bills? It wasn’t my fault! According to LawBrain.com oil spills are probably some of the most devastating man-made disasters to occur, particularly from the standpoint of marine environ-mentalists. Also the LawBrain.com defines oil spills as a layer of oil floating on water or covering the shoreline of a body of water, usually petroleum which has leaked from an oil tanker, often presenting a hazard to marine life and the environment. Unfortunately this is what happened on March 24, 1989 in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
Name: Isaac Mitchell Specific Purpose: My purpose is to persuade the class why they should recycle. Thesis: to persuade and educate the class on why they should recycle, the problems and the causes and possible solutions on the problem. =================================================================================== I. problem is over use of supplies and pollution of the earth. A. one million sea creatures killed because of plastics and other garbage floating in the oceans every year. In fact, scientists report that this problem is so serious that virtually all seafood now contains plastic.
(live science.com) One of the most memorable rogue wave occurrences was on October 30, 1991. It was called the perfect storm. According to CNN.com, an enormous extra tropical low is creating havoc along the entire Eastern Atlantic Seaboard in this infrared image at 1200 UTC (0700 EST) on October 30, 1991. Labeled the "perfect storm" by the National Weather Service, the storm sank the sword fishing boat Andrea Gail, whose story became the basis for the currently best-selling novel "The Perfect Storm" by Sebastian Junger. Ocean waves peaked at 100 feet, the height of 10-story buildings.
The cases of Anderson et al v. Pacific Gas and Electric and Jones v. Scotchwood are very similar yet have significant differences. Four decades after one of the world’s largest utility started dumping 370 million gallons of cancer-causing chemicals into unlined ponds in Hinkley, California, their actions were uncovered. There negligence caused many people and domestic animals in the high desert town of Hinkley to get sick. In the town of Scotchwood, the water pipes running throughout the town were deteriorating causing the parasite “Pindia” to contaminate the water. This parasite was not an immediate threat to healthy people of Scotchwood but to the people already sick with diseases causing weakened immune systems.
1. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a big loss to the environment. The location that this patch is located is between 135 degrees to 155 degrees west and 35 degrees to 42 degrees north . The patch is sometimes described to be as big as Texas and as big as the United States. According to new data collected the garbage patch has two zones in the Pacific.
In this environmental disaster, 10 cubic meters of water and 4.5 million cubic meters of potentially toxic slurry were spilled into virtually untouched forest, lakes and rivers. If something like this happens at the Pebble Mine, then most of the fish and wildlife in Bristol Bay would be in danger of being killed. A species that would be greatly affected by this is the sockeye salmon. More than half of the world’s population of these fish lives in Bristol Bay. This means that the survival of this species would be threatened.
Eaarth Chapters 1 & 2 We’ve changed the planet. Global warming is no longer philosophical or future threat but instead a current and very real threat. The changes made to our planet are more evident in the toughest parts of the planet, and climate change is wrecking the lives of thousands daily. We need to consider the world we’ve created and how to live in it. We need to figure out what part of our lives we must forego and what ideologies we must abandon so that we can protect our societies and our civilizations.
Keeping the Ocean Free of Debris Pollution in the Persian gulf is negatively impacting marine life How much are we trashing our ocean? CNN, February 12th 2015. Arabian Gulf coral reefs dying a slow death. Gulf news, June 10th, 2014. Spill, Dolphin Deaths Spark Alarm At Persian Gulf Pollution.
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was the largest oil spill in the history of the United States (EPA, 2011). The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major concert in Alaska and 11 million gallons of oil released into the ocean (EPA, 2011). The damage opened the eyes of individuals in the United States because the oil spill posed threats to the food chain, fishing industry, and many species of birds in the particular ecosystem (EPA, 2011). The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 was created in August 1990. The OPA established plans to handle future oil spills easier.