Save the Ocean Life and Save Earth

13 of the dirtiest beaches in the world Zoë Miller Jun. 21, 2018, 3:19 PM Kuta Beach, Bali, becomes covered in garbage during the rainy season -  Antara Foto Agency/Reuters Wide scale  pollution  has turned some of the world's most  beautiful beaches  into trash heaps. From Hawaii's Kamilo Beach — which is so littered by man-made debris that it earned the nickname "Plastic Beach" — to Henderson Island, a remote, uninhabited island in the South Pacific whose beaches are some of the dirtiest on Earth, these former sandy paradises now resemble garbage dumps. Looking at studies from different nonprofits, organizations, and researchers, we found 13 of the dirtiest beaches in the world. Kamilo Beach, Hawaii, United States Thousands of pounds of plastic waste wash up on Kamilo Beach each year -  Justin Dolske/Wikimedia Commons Kamilo Beach, also known as " Plastic Beach ," is one of the dirtiest places on the planet. Located in a rural area of Haw...

FUKUSHIMA’S OTHER BIG PROBLEM: A MILLION TONS OF RADIOACTIVE WATER VINCE BEISER  SCIENCE 04.27.18 07:00 AM Irradiated tanks of water at Fukushima Daiichi plant.   SPENCER LOWELL THE TSUNAMI-DRIVEN SEAWATER  that engulfed Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has long since receded. But plant officials are still struggling to cope with another dangerous flood: the enormous amounts of radioactive water the crippled facility generates each day. More than 1 million tons of radiation-laced water is already being kept on-site in an ever-expanding forest of hundreds of hulking steel tanks—and so far, there’s no plan to deal with them. The earthquake and tsunami that hammered Fukushima on March 11, 2011  triggered meltdowns in three of its six reactors . That left messes of intensely radioactive fuel somewhere loose in the reactor buildings—though  no one knows exactly where . What is known, however, is that every day, as much 150 tons of groundwater percolates into ...

What a North Korea Hydrogen Bomb would do to the Pacific Ocean and Space Stations Science   Sep 30, 2017 9:38 AM EDT By —  Nsikan Akpan Last week, North Korea’s foreign minister floated the prospect of  testing a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean  in response to President Donald Trump’s threat of “total destruction” of the Asian nation in a speech to the United Nations. Such a test, whether in the open air or underwater, would be the first of its kind in almost four decades. But even before a hydrogen bomb test could trigger the fallout of international war, the blast would cause immediate damage to marine life and space technology like satellites and space stations. "Nutmeg" nuclear test at Bikini Atoll on May 22, 1958. This surface blast was 25.1 kilotons, so 1.5 times stronger than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. North Korea's alleged hydrogen bomb test in early September was 11 times stronger than Nutmeg. Image by NewsHour/Lawrence Livermore National Laborato...

Microbead Ban On Rinse-Off Products Comes Into Effect Sabrina Barr @fabsab5 The ban has been issued in an effort to protect the marine environment The ban on products that contain  microbeads  will come into effect from today, the  government  has announced. In  January , it was revealed that manufacturers in the UK would no longer be allowed to develop products containing the miniscule pieces of  plastic , due to the detrimental impact that the plastic has had on the ocean. When products such as face washes, body scrubs and toothpaste that contain microbeads are flushed down the drain, they can consequently damage the marine environment when they eventually reach the sea. In 2016, a  report  issued by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee stated that approximately 100,000 microbeads can make their way to the ocean from a single shower. The ban will prevent retailers in England and Scotland from selling products tha...

Vulnerable Turtles Return Home To Shore After World's Largest Volunteer-led Beach Cleanup By  McKinley Corbley  - Mar 30, 2018 It has been a little over two years since a determined lawyer took it upon himself to start cleaning a heavily polluted stretch of beach in India. His efforts have led to the  coastline’s transformation  from a trash-ridden landfill into a sparkling sandy sanctuary. Not only that, but it has become a hatchery for a vulnerable turtles species that has not been seen on the beach in decades. The transformation of Versova Beach, which was first initiated by Afroz Shah, has been called the world’s largest beach cleanup project by the United Nations. Though the cleanup eventually recruited thousands of volunteers, Shah was the first one to start cleaning up the shin-deep piles of trash. “For the first six to eight weeks, nobody joined,” Shah told  the Guardian . “Then two men approached me and said, very politely, ‘Please s...