Latest News for: Ocean pollution

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Whales Must Be Granted Personhood, Say Pacific Indigenous Leaders

IFL Science 28 Mar 2024
The same goes for a Spanish lagoon that's been granted personhood, which (or who maybe?) can even sue polluters ... Boat strikes, entanglement in fishing nets, and an increasingly noisy and polluted ocean continue to threaten whales.
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Starvation has decimated gray whales off the Pacific Coast. Can the giants ever recover?

Hastings Tribune 28 Mar 2024
LOS ANGELES — When large numbers of gray whales began washing up along North America’s Pacific Coast nearly six years ago, marine scientists could only speculate at the reason. Was it disease? Ocean pollution? Increasing ship collisions? ... .
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Study suggests starvation decimated gray whales off the Pacific Coast: Can the giants ever recover?

Phys Dot Org 28 Mar 2024
Was it disease? Ocean pollution? Increasing ship collisions? ... What remains unclear however is whether this malnutrition was caused by a change in the ocean, or the whales themselves.
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Attaching seaweed spores to used scallop shells could restore UK's coastal kelp forests

Phys Dot Org 28 Mar 2024
But these forests are threatened by warming oceans and marine heat waves, pollution, poor water quality and overfishing ... Almost 200 nations have pledged to protect 30% of the world's oceans by 2030, ...
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Plastic 'interceptor' tackles trash in Bangkok river

Gulf News 27 Mar 2024
The global non-profit, founded in 2013 by then-teenager Boyan Slat, aims to remove plastic pollution from the seas in part by preventing synthetic waste from ever reaching the oceans.
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UAE Emerges as Leader in Ocean Conservation

The Arabian Post 27 Mar 2024
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a nation long associated with desert landscapes and booming metropolises, is quietly emerging as a global leader in ocean conservation ... Plastic pollution is another major challenge facing the world’s oceans.
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Shipping to take key place in government-backed Athens ocean policy forum

Tradewinds 27 Mar 2024
... and sustainable coastal tourism in the Our Ocean conference.
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Turkish first lady urges global action on zero waste at summit

Anadolu Agency 27 Mar 2024
"Air pollution kills 7 million people every year," she stated, pointing to the human toll of environmental degradation ... She noted that daily, an equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastics are dumped into oceans, rivers, and lakes.
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‘The Impacts of Water Quality on the Economy’ discussion on April 6

Lehigh Acres Citizen 27 Mar 2024
... for the United Nations, evaluated regulations to protect water quality in streams for the Wild Salmon Center, and recommended solutions to marine plastic pollution at the Ocean and Coastal Law Center.
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Best ACs in India: Top 10 picks for energy-efficient cooling and a comfortable home

Hindustan Times 27 Mar 2024
The LG 5 star AC boasts anti-virus protection and a 100% copper with ocean black protection ... 5 StarAnti-Virus Protection100% Copper with Ocean Black ProtectionHD Filter with Anti-Virus Protection ... Durable copper with ocean black protection.
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Plastic's role in ocean pollution, human health and climate change theme of Earth Day Staunton

News Leader - Staunton 26 Mar 2024
STAUNTON — Earth Day Staunton’s theme of 2024, “STOP the Plastic Tidal Wave!,” aims to raise awareness about the role of plastic in ocean pollution, human health and climate change, according to a press release from the event coordinators.
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High-risk, plastic litter zones for marine life in the North Atlantic

SAFETY4SEA 26 Mar 2024
These items are often transported far from their original source via a complex system of ocean currents, making this transboundary pollutant even more challenging to monitor and manage.
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Plastic chemicals are inescapable — and they’re messing with our hormones

Raw Story 26 Mar 2024
As noted in a by the Endocrine Society and the nonprofit International Pollutants Elimination Network, or IPEN, exposure to endocrine-disrupting substances can occur throughout the plastic life cycle.
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Column: Extreme heat is deadly. Californians need to pay up to protect themselves

The Los Angeles Times 26 Mar 2024
'We conjured a massive and grotesque sea creature grown from all the pollution and the debris that humans have been pouring into oceans and rivers for centuries,' said Rick Rothschild, who heads Far Out! Creative.
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