Category: Ocean

Two of every three parts of the Earths surface is made up of oceans and seas. This makes beaches, palm trees, and warm sands the biggest tourist attractions in the world. For vacation, most people’s first choice is to go to the beach. Millions of families travel to the ocean for vacation every year, and…

Ocean is essential for any living thing on the earth. It supports and provides us in a dynamic way. However, we are making the ocean toxic. As we continue to live a busy life, we dont consider where the waste will go and the consequences we will face, nor the living things in the marine…

Growing up with severe asthma as a child, the doctors repeatedly advised my mother to take me to the sea. The fresh breeze coming from a large body of salt water was a miracle cure to my never ending sleepless nights spent on asthma attacks. At the age of only 5, I have developed a…

One major issue thats currently happening in our nation that Im interested in how pollution is affecting the ocean. Where does all this garbage go? Its all dumped into the ocean. It affects all the marine animals and the whole ecosystem. It also affects people because when we fish for food in the ocean, most…

The first decade of 21st century has produced more plastic than the whole of the years before the start of this century [1]. Most of the plastic are single use materials, which get dumped into the ocean after their purpose. Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the active regions of plastic accumulation in the…

Over the past few decades, human activity has resulted in severely detrimental ocean pollution, affecting marine ecosystems, our communities, and the environment in general. The spread of oil, industrial/agricultural waste, and chemicals continue to harm the Pacific, but plastic remains one of the most destructive forms of pollutions, killing one million seabirds and one hundred…

The history of plastics according to this paper dates back to the mid-1800 when humans started using natural products with plastic characteristics such as chewing gum. Later it was modified by use of chemicals on naturally occurring substances to produce materials such as rubber. The earliest invention of plastics was made by Alexander Parkes who…

Every year, millions of kilograms of plastic and other pollutants enter the ocean. Where do the pollutants come from? Where does this waste…eventually go? And why is it allowed? the pollution in the oceans is killing animals and killing the plants that we need to breathe. Other forms of pollution that impact the health of…

Crude oil (petroleum) is a highly complex mixture of organic compounds of which some 1.3 million liters enters the environment each year. Oil spills occur way to often causing a messy decontamination challenge to our environment. What is helping the ocean become cleaner and decontaminated? Its a bacterium that is called Alcanivorax borkumensis that reacts…

Indian ocean has gained the worlds attention due to its strategic importance in terms of economic and geo-politic. It is the the third-largest of the worlds ocean. It is sirrounded by three lands on it sides, in the west by the eastern and soithern parts of Afroca and the south-western part of Asia, in the…