Save the Ocean Life and Save Earth

Ocean Pollution is Harming Marine Life and Our Health By: Alex Meachum Posted: Jun 22, 2018 07:02 PM CDT Updated: Jun 22, 2018 08:23 PM CDT Shreveport, La. - Scientists say there's so much trash in our oceans by 2050 they will be more trash than fish. It can harm marine life and our health. It's something people may not think about, but the plastics we use right here in Caddo Parish can still wind up in the ocean. Those chemicals are ingested by fish and us. Plastic does not break down fast and far outlives us. Huge heaps of plastic debris miles long has created islands of floating trash. You can spot what's called the "Great Garbage Patches" from outer space. There are five of them across the world. Our's is off the coast of California in the Pacific and it's twice the size of Texas. "It's so large it's going to effect the marine life. It's going to effect the food you eat and even the recreation you do," said Anne Lutz, hos...

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 ...

Could You Be Ingesting Plastic? opinion June 17, 2018 01:00 By Song Su-hyun The Korea Herald, agencies Seoul Chemical components designed to make human lives easy is killing ecosystem, but not many know how A war has begun worldwide on plastics. For decades, polymers have been used to make human lives easy and more hygienic, but with single-use plastic items being blamed for killing species in the ocean and threatening ecosystems, global initiatives have been launched since last year by the United Nations to curb their use. But South Korea, one of the biggest producers and consumers of plastics in the world, has taken a little interest in curbing plastic pollution. Leaders have been pointing out a lack of public awareness of the impact of plastics on ecosystems, and also on human lives. “‘Korea is the No 1 plastic consumer, but public awareness of recycling remains low,” said South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon in his speech marking the World Environment Day. “The amo...

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 ...