Pollution in the Ocean

 In the article "Plastic Pollution Affects Sea life Throughout the Ocean", it states that nearly 13 million metric tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year! That's a lot of plastic! Animals such as: fish, birds, sea turtles and marine mammals eat this plastic or get tangled in it and end up dying. Almost 100,000 marine animals die every year just from a tiny piece of plastic you didn't throw away. Why put these animals lives in danger when you could get throw your trash in a trashcan? Research shows that half of the sea turtles worldwide have ingested plastic some way or another. This research also shows that a sea turtle that ingests just 14 pieces of plastic has an increased risk of death. Scientist have also proven and told us that nearly 60% of all seabirds have ingested plastic in their lifetime, and they suspect this number to go up to 99% in the early 2050's. So many animals in the world are affected just by the tiniest peace of trash. You may not thing that a little bag will hurt any animal, but next time think again! 

I mainly read about this article because many people don't understand how important it is to throw away your trash. People should be more concerned about cleaning up their trash because it is affecting our oceans worldwide. Before you know it, we might not even have any marine animals left! That's a crazy thought, but if we don't take care of our oceans soon it may be true. 


Article link

Comments

  1. AnonymousOctober 15, 2020 at 7:21 AM

    I agree that if us humans keep this up, there will not be any marine animals left. Pollution in the ocean not only affects the ocean and its creatures, but it affects us as well. If we continue to pollute the oceans, it can contaminate our water supplies and we would no longer have any marine resources left. Unless we want all the marine animals to be locked up in captivity, pollution needs to slow down and stop.

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousOctober 15, 2020 at 7:24 AM

    It is so sad to think that 13 million metric tons of plastic ends up in the ocean every year and even just a little amount of that can harm so many animals. Many people don't realize how much pollution is in the ocean and how bad it is for the animals living in the ocean. This article is a good reminder to make sure we throw our trash away.

    ReplyDelete
  3. AnonymousOctober 15, 2020 at 10:57 AM

    I thought this article was very interesting and learned a lot. Especially when you talked about how much plastic is being consumed by these animals. Do you really think that one day there won't be any sea animals left? It's crazy how much we are effecting the world in a negative way.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Law enforcement intercepted a ricen laced package and letter sent to Donald Trump that supposedly came from St. Hubert Quebec. A women has been arrested in the case but they are still investigating.  Ricin is a highly toxic compound extracted from castor beans that has been used in terror plots. It can be used in powder, pellet, mist or acid form. If ingested, it causes nausea, vomiting and internal bleeding of the stomach and intestines, followed by failure of the liver, spleen and kidneys, and death by collapse of the circulatory system .
Read more

Current event

I am just doing a trial current event-  Are you supposed to put the link to your article in the summary?  Do you know how to do that?  My current event is an article from the magazine The Week.  It is titled   It's not just the germs — it's also the genes  The article discusses how a person's genes play a part in how viruses react within that body.  It talks about how some people may get a virus more seriously than another & how scientists can look at that information and develop therapies from.  Just so you know The Week pulls articles from other sources-  I did backtrack to check the source they got the original article from & it checks out. 
Read more

Over 87,000 papers published on coronavirus since start of pandemic

 Over 87,000 papers have been published about this global pandemic. When most people think of the pandemic going around right now, they think about how awful it all is. How many people have died, how many people have lost a family member, or how many people they have lost relationships with friends or family. But, do people ever think about how this event will go down in history, and how it will affect science studies in the future? We never know what type of science we will come across in the future, but we can say that science evolves every day, and things are constantly changing. This is why so many people are interested in this pandemic. The more we know about this pandemic, the more we can do to try and change is. So, what will science bring in the future? And how will it impact future in sciences? We won't know the answer to either of those questions for a long time, but we can certainly say that it will evolve so much, and make things a lot more interesting.    htt...
Read more