Essays on Ocean Pollution

Ours, a water planet. The ocean covers 71 percent of the surface of the globe, and it constitutes over 90 percent of all habitable space on Earth. Its total volume is around 300 million cubic miles and its weight is approximately 1.3 million million million...

For many years, ocean pollution has been a problem, but recently it has been getting worse. In the past 60 years, a staggering amount of waste has entered the ocean each year. The products people produce eventually end up in the ocean which is caused...

Over the past few decades, human activity has resulted in severely detrimental ocean pollution, affecting marine ecosystems, our communities, and the environment in general. The spread of oil, industrial/agricultural waste, and chemicals continue to harm the Pacific, but plastic remains one of the most destructive...

Although there are already several laws and regulations in place that benefit the global goal, “Life Below Water”, there is still a tremendous desideratum for more to be put into place. For centuries people have regarded the oceans, rivers, lakes, and coasts as an infinite...

On Planet Earth, Water is the indefinite one of the most, if not the most necessary resource to all life. Not only is it crucial for staying alive, but also society today depends on water for nearly everything. Water is used in household necessities such...

The oceans are a very important part of our environment. About 50-80 percent of all life on earth is estimated to live in the oceans. Not many people even consider how important the ocean is to the environment. People worry about cutting down trees in...

Ocean is essential for any living thing on the earth. It supports and provides us in a dynamic way. However, we are making the ocean toxic. As we continue to live a busy life, we don’t consider where the waste will go and the consequences...

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich was the first man to travel in space on April 12, 1961. Since then, hundreds of people have explored past the earth’s atmosphere. Many discoveries and advancements have been made since then. Health and medical fields have benefitted from groundbreaking technology....

Noise pollution from ships is the intense noise made from boats, ships engines, military SONAR and offshore developments which can cause serious acoustic trauma for marine animals. The Ocean is full of rich, diverse soundscapes of bubbles, grunts, clicks and chirps from a large variety...

There are two main things that need to be done, one of them is to clean the ocean and the other one is to prevent it from getting dirtier. The solution to prevent the ocean from getting dirtier is the mass reeducation of people all...

Along with many pollutions in the water (oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.), plastics are one of them. Eight million tons of plastics enter the oceans every year, with 10,000 tons entering one great lake just by us, Lake Michigan. People who helped volunteer clean up litter...

Growing up with severe asthma as a child, the doctors repeatedly advised my mother to take me to the sea. The fresh breeze coming from a large body of salt water was a miracle cure to my never ending sleepless nights spent on asthma attacks....

Oceans are an essential part to the stable functionality of the earth. Oceans are home to essential creatures in our ecosystem, such as phytoplankton that are responsible for monitoring oxygen levels. Oceans also are home to marine life which is fundamental source of food for...