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How to Make Your Halloween More Eco-Friendly

Ocean Conservancy

However, for our ocean and the planet, the real fright comes from plastic waste. Plastic candy wrappers, plastic decorations and other plastic waste have serious impacts on our ocean and marine life. Love ocean content? Our ocean is counting on us to take a stand, and together—we can make a difference.

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Crafting a Future Free of Plastics

Ocean Conservancy

We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tackle one of the biggest threats facing our ocean: plastic pollution. Widely known as the “global plastics treaty,” this agreement aims to curb the global plastic pollution crisis, of which the ocean often bears the brunt. As an official U.N. There is still time to right this ship.

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‘A Tsunami of Human Waste’: Half of South Africa’s Sewage Treatment Works Are Failing, Says Report

Circle of Blue

As Anthony Turton from the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State states, this represents “a tsunami of human waste inundating our rivers and dams, without respite, for more than a decade.”. The Green Drop report itself shows a significant failure in wastewater treatment quality over almost a decade.

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From Whale Oil to Wind Power: the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Disinformation Is an Ocean of Hypocrisy

Union of Concerned Scientists

They are sowing distrust and doubt and wasting precious time during which we should be accelerating wind power development. This long search for something so large in the ocean brought to mind the classic American novel, Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

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Upcoming Developments in International Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Law Columbia

That’s because the parties to the London Convention and London Protocol are meeting from October 28 to November 1 in London to discuss, among other things, governance of ocean alkalinity enhancement and ocean sinking of biomass (e.g. Some are land-based, while others use the ocean. seaweed) for carbon storage.

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TeamSeas Will Be Transformational for Our Ocean—Let’s Go!

Ocean Conservancy

Today YouTubers MrBeast, Mark Rober and thousands of other creators are joining together to launch TeamSeas, a crowd-funded campaign with the goal of raising $30 million dollars by January 1 to remove 30 million pounds of trash from rivers, beaches and our ocean. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Love our content?

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How Much Trash is in the Ocean?

Ocean Conservancy

In many ways, the ocean is “ground zero” for the plastic pollution crisis. It is so vast, yet plastics have been found in every corner of the ocean —from the deepest trench to the most remote Arctic ice sheets. So, it’s normal to wonder, how much trash is in the ocean? So, it’s normal to wonder, how much trash is in the ocean?

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