This document discusses several ways to protect life below water, including reducing marine pollution, protecting and restoring ecosystems, and reducing ocean acidification. It states that 13 million tons of plastic enter oceans each year and many countries have banned plastic bags as a result. It also discusses other pollutants like nitrogen, phosphorus, antibiotics, and heavy metals that enter oceans and damage the environment. Restoring ecosystems can help natural processes, but restored areas may never fully function the same. The most effective way to limit ocean acidification is to dramatically reduce fossil fuel use to curb climate change and protect species with calcium carbonate shells and skeletons.
This document discusses several ways to protect life below water, including reducing marine pollution, protecting and restoring ecosystems, and reducing ocean acidification. It states that 13 million tons of plastic enter oceans each year and many countries have banned plastic bags as a result. It also discusses other pollutants like nitrogen, phosphorus, antibiotics, and heavy metals that enter oceans and damage the environment. Restoring ecosystems can help natural processes, but restored areas may never fully function the same. The most effective way to limit ocean acidification is to dramatically reduce fossil fuel use to curb climate change and protect species with calcium carbonate shells and skeletons.
This document discusses several ways to protect life below water, including reducing marine pollution, protecting and restoring ecosystems, and reducing ocean acidification. It states that 13 million tons of plastic enter oceans each year and many countries have banned plastic bags as a result. It also discusses other pollutants like nitrogen, phosphorus, antibiotics, and heavy metals that enter oceans and damage the environment. Restoring ecosystems can help natural processes, but restored areas may never fully function the same. The most effective way to limit ocean acidification is to dramatically reduce fossil fuel use to curb climate change and protect species with calcium carbonate shells and skeletons.
In this moment the plastic has gone to be the greatest invention of our modern era to one of the most hard challenging materials to manage. We can see that every year approximately 13 millions of tons enter the ocean. Due to situation in the world has been implemented countless iniciatives, campaigns and agreements to ban plastic bags and 127 countries have introduced legislation to regulate the use of plastic bags. There are a lot of non plastic contaminants like
• Nitrogen
• Phosphorous
These feeds the proliferation of harmful algae, antibiotics, heavy metals,
pesticides oil and gas and other. These pollutants enter to the ocean directly through the rivers, storwater or the wind. These substances have been damaging the enviroment, human health and the economy long before plastics became so prevalent. • PROTECT AND RESTORE THE ECOSYSTEM We know that there are few ecosystems in the world that have not been impacted by humans. The humans can do bad things like eliminate species and disrupt natural processes. Through the ecological restoration it is possible to achieve the restoration of ecosystems although is possible that restored environments may take years to function and may never be the same. REDUCE OCEAN ACIDIFICATION The most effective way to limit ocean acidification is to act on climate change, implementing solutions to dramatically reduce the use of fossil fuels. If we dramatically cut our global warming emissions, and we limit future warming, we can significantly reduce the harm to marine ecosystems. The problem with the ocean acidification is for coastal and marine ecosystmens and some species that built their skeletons and shells from calcium carbonate. Clams. Mussels