This week a giant floating device aiming to catch plastic waste was deployed again in a second attempt to clean up a huge garbage island swirling in the Pacific Ocean.
Worlds rivers are full of drugs
The largest global study revealed that the hundreds of rivers around the world from the Thames to the Tigris are full of dangerously high levels of antibiotics.
How deep the world ocean is polluted
Well-known fact that three quarters of the world’s population live in the coastal zone, but not everyone has a notion how deep the oceans suffer from the effects of human activity and large-scale pollution. The tide zone disappears due to the factories construction, port facilities, tourist complexes. The water area is constantly polluted by household and industrial wastewater, pesticides, hydrocarbons. Heavy metals are found in the body of deep-sea (3 km) fish and arctic penguins. Every year about 10 billion tons of waste are brought into the ocean by rivers, sources are silted, the seas dry up, the oceans are blooming. These every environmental problem requires a solution.
Oceans can be transformed into aquatic desserts because of the overfishing
Researchers alarms that people’s enormous appetite for fish leads to transforming much of the world’s oceans into aquatic desert.
Scientists found cocaine in UK river shrimps
During the river water test for chemicals scientists found cocaine in freshwater shrimps.