Bacteria Gobble Up Oil Spills
When the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill spewed almost 5 million barrels (nearly one and a half billion tons) of black, petroleum Oil into the ocean in 2010, no one […]
Category Archives: Habitat Destruction
‘Plastisphere’ — Changing an ecological community
Thousands of miles from land, human beings have created a whole new ecosystem made of plastic. It’s called the plastisphere, and it’s where old plastic stuff goes to die. […]
Ocean Deserts aka Dead Zones
Wherever people live, land is disturbed for building and fertilized for farming. Rain washes the disturbed soil, farm fertilizer and animal waste into waterways, almost all of which eventually lead […]
Restricted Waters 