Water Pollution
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The great oceans are dying. The effects of pollution are taking their toll on marine life. As the Earth’s waters are being attacked by natural and man-made contaminants, marine plants and animals are paying the high price.
The definition of is the “contamination of water by foreign matter th ....
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.... commercial boats dump over 5,550,000 plastic, metal, and glass containers into the ocean in a single day.2
The most harmful of these is plastic. Sea mammals such as birds and dolphins often get tangled in the plastic six-pack rings, fishing lines, and net that humans discard into the ocean waters. Once entangled, they are unable to free themselves which can cause deep cuts, starvation, and drowning. Many ocean mammals have died as a result of ingesting these plastic items. In 1985, a sperm wha ....
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