Join ocean lovers and protect Cape Town’s beaches with Trash Bash, the Two Oceans Aquarium’s monthly beach cleanup event. Bring your sunblock and connect with nature and people passionate about protecting our marine environment. Find out more about Trash Bash’s upcoming beach cleanups. Date...
In some parts of the world they are revered and protected; in other places they are captured and eaten for dinner. One thing is certain: They’re everywhere.
Each year over 100,000 dolphins, fish, whales, turtles and more drown after becoming entangled in or digesting plastic litter. 3. Litter facilitates the spread of disease Improperly discarded trash is a breeding ground for bacteria and diseases. Litter can spread diseases, viruses and parasites ...
"Plastic is such a ubiquitous pollutant," she said. "But it's also something that's an intimate pollutant because we all come into so much contact with it everyday." "So seeing students taking an interest in ...
How Much of Ocean Plastic Is Straws? Even though plastic straws certainly have a negative effect on sea life, they make up a shockingly small percentage of the approximate 8 million of plastic that enter the ocean annually. According toPhysandthe UN, straws are responsible for just 0.025 perce...
heating,acidifying,and deoxygenating the ocean and trash is polluting it.Overfishing and aggressive seabed resource extraction are disrupting fragile ecosystems and impacting the ocean’s productivity." 会计师却忽略了从波塞冬的脸上流下来的一滴咸眼泪。他还不能给出 ...
World’s major rivers are becoming conveyor belts. They pick up more and more trash as they go downstream and take plastic to seas and oceans. Once this plastic is caught in ocean streams, it’s transported around the world. Here’s an example: Henderson Island is an uninhibited atoll betw...
Why the Ocean is Important - The ocean is a magnificent and curious place. More than 70% of Earth’s surface is covered by the ocean. On average, the ocean is roughly two miles deep, but there are areas that are much deeper. The ocean plays an important
HOW MUCH WIND OR RAIN DOES IT TAKE TO MOVE PLASTICS ON LAND? Among all the tested plastic trash items, the light and thin plastic bags started moving easiest when exposed to wind, already at low wind speeds. A wind speed of Beaufort 3 –“gentle to moderate breezes” – was enough to...
As ourglobal populationexpands, so does the amount of trash we produce, and a large portion of that trash ends up in the world's oceans. Due tooceanic currents, much of the trash is carried to areas where the currents meet, and these collections of trash have recently been referred to ...