Conservation Of The Environment : Sea Deoxygenation, Pollution, And The Loss Of Biodiversity

The Ocean has many ecosystems and animals that live and survive in there. We depend on some of the natural resources the ocean provides. We are hurting this by dangerous fishing and overfishing or overexploitation of the fish. The ocean has a great diversity

Oceans cover approximately 75% of Earth 's surface and are vital to this planet and the people who inhabit it. Oceans provide food, natural resources, and recreation for nearly everyone in this world. Unfortunately Oceans have been receiving mass amount of pollutants including oil spills, toxic waste dumping, and industrial dumping. These pollutants will have negative impacts on the wildlife in the ocean, as we are seeing already with the Coral Reefs, and soon enough it will begin to affect our lives as well.

Ocean pollution is a problem that can not be solved unless everyone is focused on doing so, our world will suffer drastically in the long run if we do not fix the increasing pollution, and its not just effecting the air we breath but also the food we eat because of water contamination. "The single biggest problem in reaching international agreement on a topic lies in convincing sovereign nations with different goals, opposing political systems, and fluctuating positions in day-to-day politic that their interests all lie in the same direction" (1, 106). Pollution gets into the sea from many sources but has the same effect, consequently swimming in our seas can make you ill. It costs big time to help decrease pollution and to study it. Poor or struggling nations will have a hard time affording it, which does not help because it has to be a world effort. Researchers calculated that $44 million a year is spent just protecting aquatic species from nutrient pollution, still there is so much pollution.

The Ocean affects the weather, the oxygen, the earth’s temperature, and shorelines. If we don’t know how we are damaging the sea or see its importance we might end up ruining the ocean and the world. Philippe Cousteau, grandson of Jacques Cousteau has stated,” Over the Past decades, as the United States has been exploring space, we’ve exploited and polluted our oceans at an alarming rate without dedicating the needed time or resources to truly understand the critical role they play in the future of the planet.” (Cousteau193). We have been abusing the oceans and haven’t been taking the time to understand the ocean. The world depends on the ocean in so many ways and we need to take time to understand what damage to the ocean has been done and how it will affect us in the future and present. In understanding the ocean and how delicate it is and how it supports life on earth, we will be able to protect and preserve

Environmental issues such as ocean pollution is caused by the careless acts of humans. Ocean Pollution is a serious environmental issue that is slowly killing our largest water source and many innocent sea creatures. Some things we will be looking over is the causes and effects as well as the way it is severely killing and destroying not only marine life, but their homes.

This tragedy is called ocean acidification. Ocean Acidification is the rapid decrease in the pH, (pH is the measure of ocean acidity,) of the Earth's ocean, caused by its intake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This rapid increase of carbon dioxide is directly coming from the large consumption of fossil fuel that humans constantly release into the air for our own selfish reasons. As we increase the level of carbon dioxide that is being released in a short amount of time, we are letting small amounts seeps into the earth's oceans through the continual water cycle. When the carbon dioxide seeps into the oceans, it begins to turn into carbonic acid. In small amounts, carbonic acid is not seriously harmful and is usually part of the ocean

The Ocean is our main life source and it is changing by the people throwing things away or the climate ruining it. What happens when we destroy is the earth life system is getting destroyed too. What we don’t realize is that we are nature, we’re connected with nature industrial evalution nation turned as a resource. All this farming that people are doing and the carbon that is being made are making ocean dead zones. All the warm ocean causes it to increase the carbon dioxide. For example What does different concentrations of acid do to shells? When CO2 is absorbed by seawater chemical reactions occur that reduce seawater pH levels. Calcium carbonate minerals are the buildings blocks for the skeletons and shells of many marine life. My hypothesis

Marine life is depleting because of things that humans have done, from overfishing and resource decreacion, to coastal development, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions are causing ocean acidification and warming.

Pollution is currently affecting all of the creatures that are living in the ocean and people who depend on them. It affects every waterway, sea and oceans in the world. This is a big problem that is not been took into consideration. Many important things depend on the ocean and we are treating the ocean like a giant trash bin. Others may not find the importance in taking care of the ocean but that is because they are not fully informed.

The oceans is an essential component to surviving, but it’s also one of the most affected by the climate change. According to the EPA website, the greenhouse gases emitted trap heat and this heat is increasing the temperature of the oceans around the world. Over the past three decades, the surfaces temperature of oceans has been increase higher than any other time period. The oceans are a vital part of surviving; it provides 50 percent of all the oxygen in the world. However, with surface temperature increasing, at a rate of 0.3 Celsius per decade, this will result higher sea levels and higher ocean currents. The ocean is an important part to humanity, it provides millions of people with a source of food, and the change in temperature will cause many ocean species to immigrate to a more suitable habitat.

Since the beginning industrial revolution the ocean has suffered, and with that the ocean plants and animals have suffered as well. Ocean acidification has been the main cause of all these marine life problems. Anthropogenic activities alone have increased atmospheric CO2 by a third. Humans are doing things such as deforestation, land use changes, and the burning of fossil fuels for energy. The burning of fossil fuels accounts for 37% of the U.S. CO2 emissions. If just in the United States we are producing that much CO2, just imagine how much CO2 we are producing world wide from burning fossil fuels. Carbon Dioxide is not just affecting the atmosphere it is affecting the oceans and the creatures living in the oceans. Since the industrial revolution

In addition to carbon dioxide levels and surface temperatures, oceans also provide scientists with evidence of climate change. Oceans play a major role in climate change because they absorb almost all (90% from 1971-2010) of the energy increase in the climate system (“Summary”, 2013, p. 8). Scientists are confident that ocean surface temperatures have increased since the beginning of industrialization (“Summary”, 2013, p. 8) and that humans have contributed to this ocean warming (“Summary”, 2013, p. 17). From 1971-2010, ocean surface temperatures have increased approximately 0.4-0.5°C and are projected to increase by 0.3-2.0°C by 2100 (“Summary”, 2013, p. 8). However, temperature is not the only effect of climate change on oceans; other

Marine life is an important aspect to not just the community but to the whole entire world. The oceans holds almost sixty percent of our oxygen that not only we the people need to survive but creatures too. In the past four decades the population of sea creatures have nearly declined by fifty percent. A reason that could be a huge cause for the declination of the population is pollution.

When looking at the environment of the Earth's oceans, it is important to realize that the entire ocean is composed of a different base material than the rest of the mass of the world, this of course, being water. While on the surface this seems elementary, the complications when looking at the environmental impacts occurring can cause serious complications that can affect the problem immensely. Acid rain, for instance, can effective drop the pH of the water to levels capable of causing large fish kills. Global warming can increase the water temperatures around tropical reefs in the summer easily to levels far beyond the tolerable range of the reef forming stony corals.

The oceans are a critical part of all living things survival. Earth is made up almost entirely by oceans, about 70% of the earth’s surface is covered in water. About 97% of all water on earth is contained in our oceans, and about half of all the air we breathe is provided by plants and organ-isms that live there (Laurence, 2010). Our oceans are key in providing home to small organisms creating the base of our food chain. Though marine habitats are being destroyed by a number of different factors which heavily effect the rest of the worlds ecosystems, closely monitoring these ecosystems and how they are being destroyed is important to preserve the biodiversity of the planet. There are many smaller ecosystems that make up our oceans, these include mangroves, the intertidal zone, coral reefs, and the open ocean.