Salton Sea

looked at as weak and petite, but deep in her heart she knew she was strong. Hydor excelled as a young water nymph and her powers over water were substantial. She desired to be a god like her hero, Poseidon. As the daughter of Merella, the queen of the sea, Hydor never thought that she would be anything more than just a princess.     Hydor awoke from her slumber and took her morning swim throughout the underwater kingdom. A sparkle in the distance caught her eye and she rushed towards it. It was a heart

Scientists have always said that nothing will last forever. The ocean is slowly dying and people need to be aware of it. Plastic is harming marine animals, sea creachers are going extinct everyday yet no one really cares if the ocean dies in the next hundred years. Everybody knows how bad plastic bags are. A plastic bag has an average working life of 15 minutes and yet world leaders do nothing about it. Plastic harms the ocean and everything in it. National Geographic says that over eight-million

What is Marine Debris? Every potato chip bag thrown on the floor, every balloon released into the air, and every gum wrapper discarded on the sidewalk has an affect on our planet. In the short term we view these acts as miniscule and irrelevant, but what most of us fail to understand is that every act of pollution has a snowball effect that only harms us and our environment. Unfortunately, most of the plastic waste we throw on the floor ends up on our beaches, in our waterways, and in our oceans

1. Why is malaria becoming more prevalent in Nairobi and in the Amazonian Indian villages? (4 points) Malaria is becoming more prevalent in Nairobi and Indian villages in the Amazon because the of the human changes to ecosystems. In Kenya, malaria is spreading from the countryside to its major cities from citizens making the move from rural to urban areas. This is occurring because rural areas are becoming more polluted and less profitable for its inhabitants. These people moving from rural areas

that the man is not exiled directly in the ways people have been exiled in the other poems, however being stuck on a ship is in many ways quite similar to being exiled from your homeland. Numerous passages in this poem show this mans painful life at sea. The one that stands out most greatly to me is this passage;

From plastic sacks to pesticides - the greater part of the waste we deliver ashore inevitably achieves the seas, either through purposeful dumping or from keep running off through channels and waterways. This includes:Oil spills cause colossal harm to the marine environment - yet actually are in charge of just around 12% of the oil entering the oceans every year. By study by the US National Research Council, 36% descends channels and waterways as waste and spillover from urban communities and industry

but also their oceans. Birds, fish, and other animals are being affected by plastic pollution, it is destroying their habitats and therefore eradicating their homes. In the article ,“Trashing the Oceans,” Thomas Hayden discusses how it has affected sea creatures: The Alguita

however failing. He feels horrible even though he tries everything to get to her and show that he does care for her and his love for her has continued to live on with him even after death. The Little Mermaid was very fond of the world above the sea where humans live and where there are many trees of green and flowers with scents. Most nights she and her sisters would go to the surface of the water and watch the ships sail by, or go towards the land and see the towns with lights and forests of

Pablo Neruda’s Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market recalls the unfortunate demise of a beautiful creature, with seeing amazing visuals of the vast oceans and the “depths of the sea”, is found dead surrounded by “lettuces”, “carrots”, “grapes”, and “among the vegetables”, ready to be sold. The subject, a tuna, is a simple, everyday food item that most overpass without giving much thought. Contrary, Pablo is known for his odd narration of subjects most would never attend towards, such as Ode to an Artichoke

This photo, created by XL Advertising Communication for MEDASSET, or the Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles, is a commonly used poster to advertise the dangers of a plastic bag through the eyes of a sea turtle. The photo depicts an underwater scene filled with two similar, yet different images. There are jellyfish, which are a sea turtle’s favorite snack, and right beside it is a plastic bag suspended in the water that looks extremely similar to the jellyfish. The point of this image