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You know how when you get the 12 packs of soda they come with plastic rings on the outside to keep them together? Most people think they are a big help, when actually they cause serious harm to our environment. People may not think so compared to oil spills and exhaust fumes but they are a major cause of marine life deaths. fish and birds are mostly the victims of these deaths.

Plastic is said to be one of our biggest headaches when it comes to litter. It actually takes hundreds of years to decay. a small plastic soda ring for example can take 4oo years to biograde. And some styrofoam will never decompose.

We can help this situation by cutting up the rings and then recycling them. Or to avoid the problem altogether and don’t buy the ones with the rings on it. 

-Nichole

many scientists are angry with the fact that Russia and Japan have been killing Whales since the 1940’s. They killed at least half a million bowhead, sperm,  humpback and other large whales that were harvested in the North Pacific waters before the commercial whaleing ended in the 1970’s.  These occurings have been in Alaskas Aleutian Islands and The Bering Sea.  One scientist believes that the pods of Orca Whales were hunting and killing the whales for food and when the Whalers came and started killing their food sources so the Orcas had to move on to bigger prey, which was meaning they migrated down to Alaska and started eating the sea lions, sea otters, and seals which is causing a dramatic shift in our life long ocean floors.

what is the anwser to the Eruptions that wiped out the Ocean Marine life 94 Million years ago?!

The answer to that is hidden deep below the oceans surface down to where the oceanic volcanoes that have or are erupting still today. This has altered the chemistry fo the sea and possibly the atomosphere as well, two earth and science scientists have discoverd thatspecific isotop levels of the element Osmium is an indicator of volcanic activity in seawater. This happening has made futher discovery of how and why the animals in the water have died and had lack of oxygen underwater and how many years it has started and ended at and further more discovery of knowing and studying the effects on global warming.

Article number 2 Is our ocean life under threat from the climate change?

Climate change is effecting the ocean climate and the supply of nutrients from the land, ocean chemistry, food change, shifts in the wind system and ocean currents and the extreme events sucha s cyclones. this does effect on how our marine life animals live, feed and breed during these times. They have grown to live in there climates and given environments with these massvie dramatic changes marine life is dying. Not only do there environments change our feeding source of being able to eat them and produce them in stores will and has gone down to were people have been more conservative on certain marine life intake. the ocean changes to help our climate better will be entirely impossible to do this century with as much damage we have done now.

Article 3 New marine Life has emerged from under the dark depths of the ocean.

Many scientists have discoverd hundreds of little marine life creatures in the deep dark depths of our ocean floors of  the Antarctic. These new species include Carnivorous Sponges, Free swimming worms, crustaceans, and mollusucs living in the  Weddle sea. These animals are more likely to be related to other marine animals but they have evolved and adapted to the darkness and depth of the ocean floor. They have found over 700 new species and are still looking to find more and find out what groups of other animals they have come from and where and how they got to where they  are now.

By Aubrie Amell artices 1-3

sea lions that live along the coast of the Aluetian Islands have been at the top of the food chain for killer whales. 40 killer whales that hvae been preying on these mammals since 1980. the populatin has been decrease slowly beacuse of these whales. These events occure usually at the time when the baby pups of sea lions are being born and are experiancing the ocean for the first time. The whales when the tide is high will use the waves to capture the sea lion pups on the shore or close to the shore. When the tide is low the whales stay farther out and wait for there prey to be swimming and catch them offgurad. If they try to come in close the shore they have a high risk of being beached during low tides so they wait for high tide to get closer. this is how the tide changes effect the killer whales. For the sea lions usually will feed during the night when the tide is out and they feed on the squid, octopus, and little fish that are at more shallow depths. during the day when the tide is high they tend to sleep and stay away from the water out of danger. if they get hungary they will eat crabs or rockfish close to shore until the tide is out and there is less danger.  This is how the sea lions are affected from the tidal change.

aubrie Amell

assignment 1 coastlines and tide affect

being living in the Intertidal zone only certain animlas that can tolerate the dramatic changes that take place in these waters. It is close to shore therefore the water can be hot, cold, salinty, a lot of sunlight, rough beaten of the waves, and the tide changes that take place. There are alot but few species that live in this area compared to the other zones. Strong willed animals such as the sea urchin, sea star, chiton and octopus’s do live in these areas because they have grown amune to the changes of the waters.  Many organisms live here other than fish, mamamls, ect… the water is freezing and it can be very wet or very dry so all organisms have to adapt or they will die. this is why it is a challenge to live in the intertidal zone.

By Aubrie amell

assignment 2 coastal tides

Australlia and New Zealand have banned whaling in there waters and have asked Japan on Monday to have there ships turn around and not kill anymore humpback whales in there waters. Japan claimed that the ship turned off there radio and that they could not tell them to leave there waters.  These whalers plan to kill up to at lease 50 humpback whales which is a lot considering these whales were once on the verge of extinction.  Because of them having to be almost extincted in 1963 there was a moratorium in the Southern Pacific waters to protect these whales. This mission also included the killings of 935 mink whales, and 50 fin whales.  This goes all the way through April, we need to stop japan from killing whales or Ecosystem is and needs a balance if one thing is missing it messes up our whole ecosytems. laws are being to become active for these magnificant creatures will to exist in peace and not tpo be killed for there fins and then thrown back into the ocean for whatever reason. its animal crulity and they need to be stopped. We are going to fix these problems and they are as of right now being fixed.

By Aubrie

japan Has been whaling all over the bering sea and in our Pacific Oceans since the 1940’s. It has eventually stopped for the time being but in the 1970’s it has increased more rapidly and they have been doing it more frequently. They kill up to anywhere from 6 to 12 million whales a year decreasing the population and possibly soon to be a indangered species if they are not stopped.  This past year  cook Islands, French polynasie,New Guinea, Samo and Nia have banned whaling in their waters, and hoping that the pther nations around them will do the same to protect these beautiful mammals.  In the South Pacific The United States and other islands and other countries have banned whaling in these waters since the 1970’s. Japan was only allowed to hunt 400 whales a year as to where Norway hunts whales commercially. We need to protect these whales it is a major issue in our environment  and we are taking actions to help ban whaling completely.

By Aubrie    article 1

We as people have had a major affect on global worming. All of our cars and oil and stealing the natural recourses have drastically changed the earths climate. The earth’s atmosphere is heating up and melting the polar ice caps, which is increasing our water levels and changing the temperature of the ocean. Not to mention the climate out side of the water, hot, freezing, feet of snow and, crazy storms.

         Global Worming has a huge impact on ocean life! Especially in the Caribbean where there is a large growth of coral reef or should I say used to be. Do to the affects of global worming the mass majority of coral reef in the Caribbean is gone. It has flattened out or receded/ died. There have been many studies done to support this theory (please refer to link).

       The killing of the coral reef is a huge problem. Because, not only will another living organism be on the endangered list but the coral reef is a living space for small fish and a whole little system of its own. There are lots of little fish and, living creatures that live and strive on the coral reef. With out the coral reefs the ecosystem could take a drastic turn (for the worst).

Leatherback Turtles are being threatened by Human Waste and are facing extinction scares. These little guys survived the extinction of the Dinosaurs descend from one of the biggest family trees over one hundred million years. These turtles have survived for so long, yet, human ignorance is killing them off. Leatherback turtles’ diets include jellyfish, which scientists believe they are mistaking plastic bottles and other waste for Jellyfish and are eating them. The Leatherbacks try to digest them but it has been killing many of them.

Many of the turtles that have digested the bottles haven’t died, but it’s a major health risk for them and it is possibly going to be the end of the Leatherback turtles. Could we possibly be witnessing the end of a historical race of turtle or do you think we can do something to avoid that?

This can be avoided if humans weren’t so careless. If you have plastic bottles or any trash at all throw it away when you are done using it. Trash affects more animals than just Leatherback turtles in the sea and off the sea.

I got my information from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315224258.htm

Derrick10

Affects:

·         Coral disease

·         Harm plants and animals

·         Human resources

·         Human health

Causes:

·         Oil spills

·         Toxic wastes

·         Sewage

·         Lead

1.       If an animal eats something toxic or another animal that ate something toxic then they can pass it on in the food chain and can end up in our seafood.

2.       Major contribution to the death of fish

3.       Recycle!: decreases harmful things in the ocean