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    remain intact for up to a thousand years. “In fact, every single piece of plastic that has ever been manufactured is still in existence today” (Cronin). At least two hundred seventy thousand are believed to be floating around on the surface of the oceans alone, while a number of “trash islands” have formed in various areas of the world. The most-well known of these – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch– is already twice as large as the U.S. state of Texas.

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    storms, and floods, helping to stop loss of life, property damage, and erosion. You can see through media today that it has become an important matter to individuals especially living on shorelines. When reefs are damaged or destroyed, the absence of this natural barrier can increase the damage to coastal communities from normal wave action and violent storms, (How Do Coral Reefs Protect). Evidence like this can actually be argued, many times people believe that the melting of ice caps and the raise

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    Three ways through which the environment is affecting climate change: (1) ocean temperatures are getting warmer and the oceans and seas are rising. A warmer atmosphere causes the earth’s snow packs, glaciers, sea and freshwater ice to melt rapidly. The oceans absorb more sunlight than ice – thus heating the ocean more and enabling a relentless cycle of melting and heating; (2) the increased evaporation of water is fuel for storms such as hurricanes. The rising sea levels make storm surges capable

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    generate 210,000 of gallons of waste and sewage and 1 million gallons of grey water from showers and drains in a typical week.”1 Most of the material that lands in these waters is not biodegradable. The majority of ships will dump their waste into the ocean, while others will store it until they get back to land, only to dump the waste into landfills. There are four reasons why having small generators on ships would work: 1) The use of generators would create job opportunities; 2) The generators

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    Stakeholder Needs

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    in-depth assessment of vulnerability in the fishing communities in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana to provide national and state marine resource decision makers with an improved understanding of the complex ways in which Ocean Acidification (OA) may affect ocean ecosystem and human communities to facilitate adaption to OA. The research outcomes will be useful for the stakeholders such as the Coastal Research and Extension Center, Mississippi, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Extension Program

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    Ocean Protection and Conservation

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    The oceans need to be protected because it is where life began and if not taken care of, life as we know it will end. When dangerous substances go into the ocean, ecosystems are suffer and become endangered along with lives of people and of marine life. Surfrider Foundation recognizes the importance of protecting and preserving the quality and biodiversity of the world's coasts because they are truly irreplaceable. There is also historical evidence of ocean pollution being present in the past, but

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    Desalinate Ocean Water

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    Should California start to desalinate Ocean water? California should not start to desalinate ocean water California should not desalinate Ocean water because it costs lots of money. This is true because in the article, “California tries one solution to water problems — treating seawater,” on page one it says, “The project is expected to cost $1 billion.” Also on page 2 it says, “San Diego County agreed to pay for 48,000 acre-feet of water from the plant every year whether it needs the water or not

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    Beach Erosion Essay

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    nature’s way of saving all the people and their livelihoods from being swept away into the deep blue yonder. When waves crash into the beach it carries sediment with it and deposits such sediment. The alternative is that when a wave recedes back into the ocean it carries that sediment back to sea. This is usually done at an unequal rate, and leads to coastal erosion. In fact, coastal erosion is one of the reasons we have so many beautiful beaches around the world due to their unique shape. Long shore currents

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    What is global warming? Over the past 50 years, the average temperature of the earth’s has increased at the fastest rate ever recorded. And scientists notice a trend is beginning. The earth hasn’t been this hot since 2000. People who deny climate change have argued that there has been pause in increase of temperatures, but studies have shown from a paper published in 2015, has disproved this claim. Scientists say that unless we stop using harmful emissions, the average U.S. temperatures could increase

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    environmental threats to the United States’ land, water and air quality. Combating pollution in our area will take more than picking up discarded trash from the sides of our roadways; it means looking to the water and air, as well as the land. Davidson County in Tennessee alone hosts approximately 2,500 total miles of streams. Of these, an astounding 350 miles were placed on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) list of "impaired" waters in 2009 – meaning that pollution has altered properties of

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