Learn and get informed about the pollution of the oceans and its dangers. See how plastics, overfishing, climate change and ships affect the life and health of different ecosystems. We only have one planet — let's take care of it!
Earth is an ocean planet.About three billon years ago,life on our planet began in the deep blue seas.Ninety-nine percent of the living space on earth is in oceans.Marine life is incredibly rich and varied.There are about five million species in the oceans and wehav...
Then, all too often, this packaging ends up in a landfill or becomes litter. Plastic can take up to 1,000 years to break down, so it builds up in the environment, damaging soil, poisoning groundwater, and choking marine wildlife. Microplastics enter the human body...
It set off a massive sea grab among coastal nations, and relations became tense among nations whose new enlarged marine boundaries overlapped. At the root of this shift in perception of ownership of the world's oceans was, as with most things, money. Contents Who cares who owns the o...
But one thing that's really taking a toll on marine life is coral bleaching. If you've never heard of coral bleaching, perhaps you've seen harrowing photos and videos of the Great Barrier Reef, completely void of color in sections. But what is coral bleaching, why is it so detrimental,...
Advantages: The two properties, conformality and straight rhumb lines, make this projection uniquely suited to marine navigation: courses and bearings are measured using wind roses or protractors, and the corresponding directions are easily transferred from point to point, on the map, with the help...
Skin cancer: Why are Australia melanoma rates increasing? (ampproject.org) Scientists warn Earth warming faster than expected — due to reduction in ship pollution | CBC News Researchers report mass bleaching of coral reefs in warming Florida oceans: ‘Like a forest without t...
In marine rocks (rocks formed in seas or oceans) the record is often more complete. It is here that the earliest and some of the strongest evidence for an extraterrestrial (something from outside the earth's atmosphere) cause for dinosaur extinction has come. Because the record is more compl...
Life-saving appliances The crew As per IMO’s circular released in January 2017, nearly 2/3rdof the lives lost at sea was from the accidents of Ro-Ro’s only. This shows that the effect of Marine accidents involving Ro-Ro’s has enormous consequences. Many steps were taken by IMO in ...
CO2 remains in the atmosphere for centuries and in the oceans for even longer.Concentrations of methane and nitrous oxide also surged by higher amounts than during the past decade, according to the WMO network which includes stations in the remote Arctic, mountain areas and tropical islands....