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How Things Got So Bad for the Great Barrier Reef One of the world's greatest wonder is on the verge of complete collapse. What happened? By  Avery Thompson Oct 25, 2018 GETTY IMAGES  DANIEL OSTERKAMP A Carnival Cruise Line ship accidentally  spilling more than 7,000 gallons  of wastewater in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef is a catastrophic event by any measure, but if you consider the full picture of human toll on this fragile ecosystem, it's tragically unexceptional: A recent  study  found that half the corals in the reef had died over the last two years. Another found that the reef will  likely disappear completely over the next few decades . So how are humans destroying such a sprawling natural feature? And is it already too late to save it? Threats From All Sides A section of the Great Barrier Reef still vibrant with life.   GETTY IMAGES  DANIELA DIRSCHERL The Great Barrier Reef has been around in some form for  nearly half...

Single-use plastics ban approved by European Parliament 24 October 2018           Ocean plastic is often eaten by sea animals, with fatal results.  GETTY IMAGES The European Parliament has voted for a complete ban on a range of single-use plastics across the union in a bid to stop pollution of the oceans. MEPs backed a ban on plastic cutlery and plates, cotton buds, straws, drink-stirrers and balloon sticks. The proposal also calls for a reduction in single-use plastic for food and drink containers like plastic cups. One MEP said, if no action was taken, "by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans". The European Commission proposed a ban in May, following a surge in public support attributed to documentaries such as David Attenborough's BBC Blue Planet series. The measure still has to clear some procedural hurdles, but is expected to go through. The EU hopes it will go into effect across the bloc by 2021. The UK will also have to incorporate ...

A chemical breakthrough could eat the plastic pollution crisis Environment By   BONNIE CHRISTIAN  -  Sunday 1 July 2018 A new chemical process can liquify plastic. The next challenge? Creating a machine that can recycle the sludge on an industrial scale NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images One single-use plastic bag takes at least 450 years to degrade. Give Miranda Wang three hours and she can reduce ten of them into liquid. Wang is the first to discover a chemical process that tackles the end-of-life of plastic. She first learned the scale of the problem in eighth grade with her friend, Jeanny Yao, when they visited a city waste recycling plant in Vancouver, Canada where they grew up. “That’s when we learnt that even plastics that are put into a curbside recycling bin end up being exported overseas in developing countries where they become ocean pollution,” she says. Since the 1950s, 8.3 billion tons of plastic has been produced. It's now found in toys, car parts, in don...

Welsh Artist Novo Amor Shoots Underwater Music Video In Indonesia Highlighting Ocean Pollution NEWS DESK THE JAKARTA POST Jakarta   | Thu, June 21, 2018   | 10:04 am Welsh singer-songwriter Ali Lacey, or commonly known by his stage name Novo Amor, released a music video recently for his song "Birthplace" taken from his debut solo album of the same name, set for release later this year. Shot entirely underwater, the video features British freediver Michael Board, who now lives on the island of Gili Trawangan. According to  theculturetrip.com , it took Board 250 freedives to create enough footage for Novo Amor's music video. Board held his breath for up to three minutes for each shot, while he also had to perform other tasks underwater, including swimming with sea turtles, snakes, eels and giant manta rays. Amed Beach in Bali The crew spent 35 hours underwater to capture the footage. Locations for the music video include Amed Beach in Bali, which was chosen for it...

Plastic Wasteland: Asia's Ocean Pollution Crisis PUBLISHED JUN 5, 2018, 12:43 PM SGT This photo taken on May 12, 2018 shows Perigrina Santos, 81, collecting her laundry next to a garbage-filled creek in Manila. The blanket of trash on a creek that flows between the makeshift homes of a Manila slum is so dense it appears one could walk across it like a paved street. PHOTO: AFP THANH HOA, VIETNAM (AFP) - A Vietnamese mangrove draped with polythene, a whale killed after swallowing waste bags in Thai seas and clouds of underwater trash near Indonesian "paradise" islands - grim images of the plastic crisis that has gripped Asia. About eight million tonnes of plastic waste are dumped into the world's oceans every year, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic being tipped into the sea every minute of every day. More than half comes from five Asian countries: China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, according to a 2015 Ocean Conservancy report...

Plastic pollution crisis: How waste ends up in our oceans By  Emanuela Campanella Multimedia Video Journalist   Global News June 17, 2018     6:00 am WATCH our plastic explainer special above, which aired on Global National. Over the last 10 years, we have produced more plastic than all of the 20th century. We look at exactly how our trash and  plastic  ends up in our oceans and the impact it’s having on our environment. Several countries are closing off their beaches to tourists. Thailand shut down  Maya Bay,  famously featured in Leonardo DiCaprio’s  The Beach.  The Philippines announced the temporary closure of  Boracay  – which has been called a “cesspool.” And disturbing videos and images of  plastic-filled Bal i have been emerging after authorities declared a “garbage emergency.” “It’s an atrocity. Here we are polluting our ocean, initially out of ignorance. This shows how poorly we are able to leave the ...

G7 Minus Two: Leaders Agree to Ocean Plastic Charter Author  Irene Banos Ruiz                     Date  11.06.2018 Five of the G7 nations, without the US and Japan, have agreed to an ocean plastics charter. But will such non-binding measures be enough for the world's industrialized countries to beat plastic pollution together? Hate crimes, discrimination, inequality and nightmare events like the deadly war in Syria can make us feel that our world is upside down. But these weren't the only urgent issues world leaders had to address. Climate change and  plastic pollution  are much quieter threats — but relentless and fierce nonetheless. In the Group of Seven's (G7) closing communique out of Charlevoix, Canada, on Saturday, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom pledged to combat ocean pollution through a  G7 Ocean Plastics Charter . The United States and Japan ...