Oceans are Filled with Trash
What action will you Take?
What is Pollution Doing to Earth?
Pollution, like water and air pollution, are creating a process known as the Greenhouse Effect. This is causing the climate to change and get warmer, which affects the homes of many organisms. For example, the polar ice caps are melting which is making sea levels rise. Many other things can happen, but we have a chance to slow it down and clean up what we have done to Earth.
Here are some Ways Humans have Impacted Oceans
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an island of trash larger than twice the size of Texas.
Innocent animals are dying because of humans polluting their homes.
Pollution is harming coral reefs, where many species of animals live.
Causes & Effects
There are many ways humans increase global warming.
Humans increase global warming by doing many activities. For example, burning fossil fuels (like coal, oil, and natural gas) is important to many of us for electricity, heating, and transportation.
Humans impact the normal Greenhouse Effect with activities that we do daily.
Many human activities increase greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere, This results in global warming, which the increase of temperature. This affects oceans because the surface temperatures of the oceans rises and increases the sea level. This leads to changes in the climate patterns around the world.
There are many Organizations Already Helping
The Ocean Cleanup
What Can We do to Help?
There are many cleanups around in communities. These help the ecosystems around the affected area.
Recycling helps the oceans by keeping the plastic we use out of the oceans.
Fertilizers eventually end up in bodies of water and harm the organisms living there.