Ocean Water Resource Challenge | Description | Sewage Contents | Fisherman and ships do not properly dispose of their waste; thus‚ contaminating the ocean water | Shipping‚ Ocean dumping‚ and plastic debris | Many ships dump oil and other waste into the ocean. This causes problems for marine animals. In 1988‚ congress passed a law banning ocean dumping. | Development/Coastal | Real estate development is destroying natural resources around our coastal lines | Pacific Ocean plastic waste is
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Nikola Bohnke February 1‚ 2009 Mrs. Leamanczyk First Hour Persuasive essay � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �4� � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �5� Standing on Juhu beach‚ in Mumbai India‚ is little boy sifting through trash. He is wearing torn beach shorts and a plain t-shirt he probably found on the beach. As he is standing there you can see the beach extending far behind him completely covered in garbage‚ stretching on for miles. The boy ’s face is contorted from the smell of the heaping trash and the air seems slightly
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your views on global warming‚ the fact remains that humans have an impact on the marine ecosystems through waste from chemicals and debris polluting this vast renewable resource. Based upon current scientific evidence‚ emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are projected to cause significant global climate change during the 21st century. Such climate change will create novel challenges for coastal and marine ecosystems that are already stressed from human development‚ land-use change‚ environmental
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5/23/2012 Plastic Pollution • History • Quantities • Marine life • Toxicity • Research • Solutions FOR A PRIZE Precautionary Principle (in this context) • When/If an action or choice has the potential to be harmful to ourselves or the environment‚ that action should be avoided. 1955 Life article“Throwaway Living” AMRF How is plastic made? Nurdles Pre-production plastic pellets 1 5/23/2012 Ballona Creek after a rainstorm Why should a disposable product outlast
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natural‚ synthetic‚ crystalline‚ amorphous and biodegradable. Plastic pollution is mainly caused due to the human made synthetic plastic being used and disposed. it ranges from pollution caused by litter plastic on the land‚ water pollution to marine debris. Specifically‚ there are six main issues caused by plastic pollution. First is the impact on environment. The burning of plastic material releases dangerous and harmful gases such as Carbon Monoxide‚ Carbon Di Oxide and toxic gases which leads
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found more plastic bits than anticipated‚ and a San Diego press conference was held to document the harmful impacts of the trash on coastal marine life. Some trash travels a long journey all the way to the center of the ocean. They float on the surface and release potentially toxic chemicals while decomposing‚ bring disruption to marine life. There is 100‚000 marine mammals’ trash-related deaths each year. Scientists estimate the Garbage Patch may be four times bigger than the one in North‚ and humans
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in particular. They are often mistaken for food by dolphins‚ whales‚ and sea birds. Plastic bags cause over 100‚000 sea turtles and other animal deaths every year nearly 90 % of the debris in our ocean is plastic. We could reduce plastic usage by recycling plastics whenever possible. Plastic debris affects wildlife‚ human health‚ and the environment. Petroleum is required to produce plastic bags. Petroleum produce are diminishing and getting more expensive because we have used
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The issue of whether we should allow marine parks to stay open has been widely debated in our community recently. It is an important issue because it concerns fundamental moral and economic questions about the way we use our native wildlife. A variety of different arguments have been put forward about this issue. This essay will consider arguments for having marine parks and point to some of the problems with these views. It will then put forward reasons for the introduction of laws which prohibit
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MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY: A DEVELOPMENT FOR THE FUTURE Biotechnology ’s first impacts occurred on a terrestrial level‚ but "there ’s an end to the diversity of terrestrial life. And if you go back and ask a fundamental question: Where on earth does the biodiversity reside‚ you realize it is the ocean (William Fenical‚ Scripps Institution)." Marine biotechnology is defined as "the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by marine biological agents to provide
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MARINE INSURANCE Marine insurance is the indemnity for the loss of cargo or damage to ships during the shipment. The risks that marine insurance covers are fire‚ seizures‚ wars‚ accidents or causalities which take place over the sea. The winds and waves are not included as risks in the marine insurance. The Indian Marine Insurance Act‚ 1963 is imbibed from the Marine Insurance Act‚ 1906. Though the Marine Insurance Act is deep in its insurance coverage‚ it does not provide for losses that occur
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