Alison Teal's Powerful Message on Plastics | The Inertia Alison Teal, TV star and eco-adventurer filmmaker, recently traveled to Indonesia to work with the conservation group Orca365 and was stunned to see how the global plastic epidemic is impacting some of the world’s most naturally beautiful locales. “Growing up and working in places like Bali, the Maldives, Mexico, and Hawaii, I’ve watched plastic pollution plague these pristine places,” she told The Inertia. The short clip above is just a fraction of what Teal observed on her trip but it also proffers a few strategies that anyone and everyone can incorporate into their daily lives to wean off of single-use plastics. Advertisement This video file cannot be played. “While positive efforts are being made by organizations and local villagers, I am scared that our planet is close to being completely suffocated by plastic,” said Teal. “As plastic bags literally coated my face while swimming with the marine life, I gathered the bags and kept wrapping them around my waist,” said Teal.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | The Ocean Cleanup Resulting from several research missions, travelling across and above the GPGP, The Ocean Cleanup team compiled an unprecedented amount of data to better understand the plastic that persists in this region. Research Expeditions Scientists have been studying this area since the 1970's - usually by means of dragging a small sampling net through the debris. Over the course of three years, researchers at The Ocean Cleanup went on several data collection missions. 2015 - Multi-Level-Trawl Expedition Realizing that previous methods of analyzing the plastic in the patch needed improvement, The Ocean Cleanup designed a new research tool, called the multi-level-trawl, which allowed measurements of 11 water layers simultaneously going as far down as 5 meters below surface level. The multi-level-trawl allowed the team to study further down into the water and understand to which depths buoyant plastic may be distributed. 2015 - Mega Expedition 2016 - Aerial Expedition Counting and Classifying
Unmasking the negative greenhouse effect over the Antarctic Plateau | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science Observed negative GHE Satellite data from NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)14 instruments illustrate the existence of a negative GHE over the Antarctic Plateau during much of the year (blue coloring in Fig. 1). This feature is also found in the NASA’s Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System Energy Balanced and Filled (CERES EBAF)15,16 data set and corroborates the negative GHE over the Antarctic Plateau for the same months and with a similar monthly variation (Fig. S1). Total GHE strength. The spectral GHE strength. Seasonally, the negative GHE peaks in both magnitude and areal coverage during March (Fig. 1). Figure 2 illustrates that the sign of the GHE varies with wavenumber and season. Explanation of the negative GHE Schematic of different effects on the upward flux. Water vapor effects on the upward flux. CO2 effects on the upward flux in the wings. CO2 effects on the upward flux in the core.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch | OR&R's Marine Debris Program What and Where Are Garbage Patches? Garbage patches are large areas of the ocean where litter, fishing gear, and other debris - known as marine debris - collects. They are formed by rotating ocean currents called “gyres.” You can think of them as big whirlpools that pull objects in. The gyres pull debris into one location, often the gyre’s center, forming “patches.” There are five gyres in the ocean. The most famous of these patches is often called the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” The Great Pacific Garbage Patch The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. The Impact of Garbage Patches on the Environment Garbage patches, especially the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, are far out in the middle of the ocean where people hardly ever go. Entanglement and ghost fishing: Marine life can be caught and injured, or potentially killed in certain types of debris. Garbage Patches and Human Health Marine debris in garbage patches can have other impacts.
Why your old phones collect in a junk drawer of sadness Admit it: Somewhere in your house, old devices are lurking in a drawer, a box, a dark corner. Broken phones, weird chargers for things you can’t fully recall; we try to convince ourselves this sad array of misfit gadgetry will simply disappear if we just forget about it hard enough. How did we get here? Our phones are the major culprit. On average, Americans get a new phone every two years. We’ll trust a 20-year-old plane to fly us across the country, and the average car on the road in the US is more than 11 years old — but a phone? In truth, your phone’s demise isn’t the only part of its life we’d rather keep out of sight and out of mind. All that globetrotting comes with a hidden environmental cost. According to Edward Humes, author of the book Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation, there’s 12,000 miles of travel just in the iPhone’s home button, and around 160,000 travel miles in a fully constructed phone. And who knows? And who knows?
Climate change environment environnement climatique climat Séquence en cours de construction... Séance 1 : Travailler le vocabulaire est le point de départ incontournable de ma séquence. Je me suis basé sur le vocabulaire proposé dans E For English 3ème, Didier pour reconstituer leur mindmap avec des activités orales dans un premier temps pour libérer la parole et découvrir les mots clés, puis inférentes - retrouver les titres des rubriques, par exemple. Voici mon PPT (sans la mindmap du livre page 36 ni les exos du workbook pages 30/31 proposés par E for English) : 1 voc environment Les exercices se déroulent en différentes étapes : Une phase individuelle pendant 15 min max. / Une mise en commun dans les îlots et passage du prof pour donner jusqu'à 4 points verts si tout est juste. HMW : Les exercices non finis sont donnés à faire à la maison. Séance 2 : 1. 2. Comparatifs climate change 3. Negative effects of climate change . 4. 5. HMW : Leçon à apprendre et applis pour réviser dispos sur le site (applis-3emes/environmental-issue.) Séance 3 : 1. 2. 3.
TRASH TALK: Special Feature | Ocean Today Ocean Today premiered this 15-minute TRASH TALK special feature for World Ocean Day in 2016. It is specially designed to be part of any World Ocean Day festivities and beyond. In addition to the video, we have a pre-recorded 10-minute webinar for educators that provides fun activities that you can organize after the film! On the right, under 'Related Videos', you will find each of the chapters contained in this special feature. We love the ocean. Unfortunately, the ocean is being filled with trash. You probably already recycle, and that’s a great start. Come learn about marine debris and be part of the action. There’s a problem with trash in the ocean all over the world. This issue also costs communities money when people avoid beaches and bays because of all the trash. Don’t you think it’s time all have an honest trash talk? So the burning question I’m sure you’re all asking is, what is marine debris? The most common items we find when we do shoreline cleanups are plastics. Recordemos.
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The giant garbage vortex in the Pacific Ocean is over twice the size of Texas — here's what it looks like Earth Challenge 2020 Earth Challenge 2020 is the world’s largest ever coordinated citizen science campaign. The initiative integrates existing citizen science projects and builds capacity for new ones — all to grow citizen science worldwide. Using mobile technology and open citizen science data, Earth Challenge 2020 empowers people around the world to monitor and mitigate threats to environmental and human health in their communities. Coordinated in partnership with the Wilson Center and the U.S. Earth Challenge 2020 works with research advisory teams in these areas to ensure scientific rigor, launching global events to mobilize the development of new EC2020 technologies and developing geographic-specific education and action materials to empower communities and collect meaningful data.
George Monbiot: We Can't Be Silent on Climate Change or the Unsustainability of Capitalist System This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: While Houston continues to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, we look at the media silence on the human contribution to it. Our next guest writes that despite 2016 being the hottest year on record, with several climate-related disasters in the U.S. alone, the combined coverage during the evening and Sunday news programs on the main television networks amounted to a total of 50 minutes in all of last year. British journalist and author George Monbiot writes, quote, "Our greatest predicament, the issue that will define our lives, has been blotted from the public’s mind." The silence has been even more resounding on climate-related disasters in areas of the world where populations are more vulnerable, most recently on the devastating floods across the globe, from Niger to South Asia. AMY GOODMAN: Over the past month, more than 1,200 people have died in flooding in Bangladesh, Nepal and India.
Is BPA on Thermal Paper A Health Risk? By Sandra Curtis If you haven’t heard yet that the chemical BPA in cash register receipts and credit/debit machines can be a health risk, you might want to know a few facts. New research shows that this chemical, which is a known endocrine disruptor, can be absorbed through your skin. Bisphenol A (BPA) has been banned for use in baby bottles and sippy cups. Some manufacturers have also removed it from water bottles and food containers. “There’s more BPA in a single thermal paper receipt than the total amount that would leach out from a polycarbonate water bottle used for many years,” said John Warner, Ph.D., president of the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry. Research has linked BPA to an increased risk of breast and prostate cancers, cardiovascular disease, and reproductive and brain development abnormalities. A chronically high estrogen level disrupts the male and female reproductive and endocrine systems. So what should you do to reduce your exposure?
eu.usatoday A giant island of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean holds as much as 16 times more debris than was previously thought, posing a significant threat to the food chain, according to an international team of scientists. Stuart McDill reports. Newslook The world's largest collection of ocean garbage is growing. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of plastic, floating trash halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles, a study published Thursday found. Winds and converging ocean currents funnel the garbage into a central location, said study lead author Laurent Lebreton of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation, a non-profit organization that spearheaded the research. First discovered in the early 1990s, the trash in the patch comes from around the Pacific Rim, including nations in Asia and North and South America, Lebreton said. The patch is not a solid mass of plastic. More: Our trash harms the deepest fish in the ocean