Ocean Pollution: Oil Spill, Marine Pollution, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Cruise Ship Pollution in the United States Book

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Oil Spill, Marine Pollution, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Cruise Ship Pollution in the United States, Regulation of Ship Pollution in the United States, Marine Debris, Ship Pollution, Dead Zone, Cruise Ship Pollution, Project Kaisei, Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, Operation Chase, Marpol 73/78, Kamilo Beach, Pemsea, Barcelona Convention, Syringe Tide, Ballast Water Discharge and the Environment, Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, Nurdle, Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea, Operation Geranium, Crude Oil Washing, Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping From Ships and Aircraft, Flotsametrics and the Floating World, Oil Pollution Act of 1990, Nokomis 3, Coal Oil Point Seep Field, Merchant Shipping Act 2006, Act to Prevent Pollution From Ships, North Atlantic Garbage Patch, Marine Environmental Protection. Excerpt: Marine pollution occurs when harmful effects, or potentially harmful effects, can result from the entry into the ocean of chemicals, particles, industrial, agricultural and residential waste, noise, or the spread of invasive organisms. Most sources of marine pollution are land based. The pollution often comes from nonpoint sources such as agricultural runoff and wind blown debris. Many potentially toxic chemicals adhere to tiny particles which are then taken up by plankton and benthos animals, most of which are either deposit or filter feeders. In this way, the toxins are concentrated upward within ocean food chains. Many particles combine chemically in a manner highly depletive of oxygen, causing estuaries to b... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2127046