MARINE POLLUTION
Oceans are “one of the five large areas of salt water that cover much of the Earth’s surface”. All of us depend on the oceans for our food, drinking water and even the oxygen in the air that we breathe, without it we would surely become extinct. Careful management of this essential global resource is a key feature of a sustainable future. However, at the current time human activities are threatening the health of the world’s oceans. More than 80 percent of marine pollution comes from land-based activities. There is a continuous deterioration of coastal waters owing to pollution, and ocean acidification is having an adversarial effect on the functioning of ecosystems and biodiversity. This is also negatively impacting small scale fisheries. Saving our ocean must remain a priority. Marine protected areas need to be effectively managed, well-resourced and regulations need to be put in place to reduce marine pollution. Plastic is one of the major sources of marine pollution. Marine...