A 3D global marine plastic mass budget suggests that larger items contribute more than 95% of buoyant plastics by mass and are longer lived than previously estimated, which suggests there is no missing sink of marine plastic pollution. Mikael L. A. Kaandorp ...
Ocean noise from a variety of sources, such as shipping, oil and gas exploration, and recreational activities, has been documented as the number one pollution problem in the world’s Ocean today (refs. 3,4,5; Fig. 1). Other forms of pollution, such as plastic pollution, including ...
Encompasses physical, biological, chemical, and geological oceanography, as well as marine pollution. Editor-in-Chief Sunyoung Park Journal Impact Factor 1.2 (2023) 5-year Journal Impact Factor 1.3 (2023) Submission to first decision (median) ...
Science-Based Solutions to Plastic Pollution 24 January 2020 Pages 5-7 View PDF Article preview select article A Roadmap for Using the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in Support of Science, Policy, and Action Review articleOpen access A Roadmap for Using the UN Decade of...
a range of economic activities related to oceans, seas and coastal areas, and whether these activities are sustainable and socially equitable. An important key point of Blue Economy is sustainable fishing, ocean health, wildlife, and stopping pollution. The UN iterates that the Blue Economy should...
abide by the rules set forth by UNCLOS because it is in their common interest to do so. On the other hand, greater domestic engagement is spurred by the recognition of the ocean as a policy issue requiring common efforts to combat everything from a rise in sea level to plastic pollution....
Plastics are certainly useful, but the tendency of many people to throw them away when they're no longer needed is creating a major pollution problem. They break down very slowly and may release toxic substances as they degrade. Some of the discarded items enter the ocean, where they harm ...
Effects of Plastic Pollution Fixing Our Marine Debris Problem How did it form? After Charles Moore, a racing boat captain who originally discovered the patch in 1997 people have questioned: where does all this ocean debris come from? Most plastic in the ocean comes from land sourc...
Cleaning beaches, while important, only addresses the symptoms of the pervasive issue of plastic pollution, not the root cause. It is a reactive approach that removes existing waste but doesn’t prevent new waste from accumulating. On the other hand, halting the production of plastics and managin...
Assessing drifting fish aggregating device (dFAD) abandonment under international marine pollution law. IOTC FAD Working Paper. https://iotc.org/documents/WGFAD/05/08 (2023). Rattle, J. & Duncan-Jones, G. Fishing outside the line: widespread noncompliance in Indian Ocean tuna fisheries. IOTC...