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The Significant Seas

By: Annette Yates and Rachel Morin

Aside from providing food options for us, the seas offer many important resources. Earth’s surface is made up of more than 70% water and the oceans hold 97% of that water. Also, they contain 99% of the living space on the planet, accounting for a great portion of the Earth’s biodiversity. The seas provide businesses to humans on the coasts, including tourism near beaches, food restaurants, and more. The food the ocean provides goes beyond seafood, including peanut butter, and the seas contain medical products that help to fight difficult diseases including cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Something must be done to protect the vast amount of biodiversity that has helped provide food and resources for humans. Also, the ocean provides transportation for trade to many countries and provides unique recreational activities including boating, kayaking, fishing, etc. It is clearly important as to why something must be done to help save the oceans; within only a few decades, we will have surpassed any reversible damage done to the environment. If this threshold is past, there will be no hope for the marine and even terrestrial life to continue as it once was, leading to complete changes in diet and habitats of all kinds of species.

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https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/why-care-about-ocean.html

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⚠️WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES⚠️ Roughly half of the world’s reefs have recently died and 90% are expected to die by 2050, and on top of that we are killing marine life at a faster pace than at any other time in the history of the world...something must change or else our oceans and all marine life will go extinct in our lifetimes or our children’s lifetimes. And that’s when the real consequences will set in as reefs are essential for marine life and marine life is responsible for the majority of the oxygen we need to breathe in order to survive...that’s right, if the oceans die, then we as a species die so that’s why we at @karmagawa created the Savethereef movement and need your help in reaching more people because there’s literally no time to waste in spreading massive awareness about this problem as too few people know about it and mistakenly believe reefs and marine life aren’t very important! @amirzakeri and @justinkalaniburbage came to Moorea a few weeks ago to film for @savethereef documentary highlighting @coralgardeners actions. ADOPT YOUR CORAL now and SAVE THE REEF! Link in bio

#savethereef #coralreef

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By: Annette Yates and Rachel Morin

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Lady Musgrave Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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Half of the Great Barrier Reef is either dead or dying, and 93% of it is now bleached. Coral bleaches when it’s highly stressed due to pollution, overheating, or disease. If climate conditions do not change, most of the reef will probably disappear. Source Source 2 Source 3

All of that coral is dead. And all of this coral…

…is bleached.

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My first gig for The New Yorker, on the future of the Great Barrier Reef under climate change. Click play to see it mooooove <3

By: Annette Yates and Rachel Morin

The Great Barrier Reef is Not Doing Too Great

The Great Barrier Reef, located off of the north-eastern coast of Australia, is the world’s largest reef and is composed of 3,000 individual reef systems and coral cays. It is one of the seven wonders of the world and is larger than the Great Wall of China. It is the only living thing on the planet that is visible from space. In 2016, the Great Barrier Reef has been affected by climate change and has experienced coral bleaching, which occurs when unnaturally hot ocean water destroys the colorful algae that surrounds a reef which, in turn, starves the coral. This extensive process is not always fatal for the coral but a study last year found that the largest die-off of corals ever recorded was in 2016 with about 67% of the shallow water coral dead. Global warming has the most detrimental impact on reef decay but another factor that does not help the reefs thrive is tourism. Millions of tourists from all over the world go to see the beautiful reefs that are found on the ocean floors, however, many are uneducated in how to properly treat a reef. Many people often step on the reefs or break off corals and plants, which in turn kills and harms the reef in many ways. Common sense coral reef education should be voiced as many people believe their actions against the reef are harmless, when in actuality, they are killing this ecosystem slowly.

Coral reefs play such an important part in our world as they not are not only home to thousands of species, but those species hold the key to new medicines. Many different drugs and medicine have recently been developed from coral reef species such as the animals and plants that inhabit the reefs. Cures for cancer, arthritis, infections, and other diseases become more obtainable by discovering the new species that are within the reefs. Scientists have estimated that that there is around 1 to 8 million species still waiting to be discovered in the ocean and around coral reefs. This shows that coral reefs are not just known for their beauty and being big tourist attractions around the world but they are important for the future generations of our planet. Many experts say that once the reef has died there is no chance of saving it, however, there may be one last hope. At the rate the reefs are dying and climate change is accelerating, the only sure way to preserve the world’s coral reefs will be to take drastic action immediately to reverse global warming.

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http://www.greatbarrierreef.org/

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#great barrier reef #coral reef #oceans #climate change #global warming

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Great Barrier Reef likely to have mass bleaching and coral death this summer, according to a long range forecast that coral experts say is “a wake up call” for the Australian government.

There’s a 60% chance the entire reef will experience bleaching and extreme heat stress. This could mean a large amount of damage that would affect tourism and fishing industries and the jobs they create. Plus, you know, a great giant beautiful piece of nature would die.

1.5C degrees of warming could lead to 80% loss of the world’s coral reefs. 2 degrees change destroys them all.

What is the government doing about this? Putting up a middle finger to the IPCC report and continuing to call for more coal fired power plants. Because duh. Why work towards preserving the environment when you can make political donors happy?

We need to phase out coal before it’s too late. We need to get rid of Scott Morrison and his coalition.

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Great Barrier Reef, Tropical North Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺

Sea turtle near underwater reef

Source: http://savetheseaturtle.org/

#sea turtle #reef

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

John F. Kennedy

By: Rachel Morin and Annette Yates

Spring Break Gone Wrong

One of the biggest tourist destinations for Spring Break is Fort Lauderdale, located on the northern coast of Florida. Spring break is a time for crazy parties and making good memories. Fort Lauderdale is the perfect spring break destination as it has its beautiful beaches, amazing restaurants, and amazing hotels with stunning views. Thousands of tourists flock each year during the months of March to April in order to properly celebrate their spring break. Locals are all for the tourism as it benefits the economy, however, the actions of these tourists often outweigh the benefits. After weeks of nonstop beach parties and crazy tailgates, the beautiful beaches are left to look like landfills. Drunken tourists often become carefree and forget to throw their trash in the designated bins, which ends up harming the oceans in numerous ways.

Aluminum cans, tarps, plastic bags, good containers, glass bottles, and anything else imaginable is found after the parties have died down and the people have gone home. There have been many movements to try and reduce this waste on the beach as huge signs are put up and hundreds of trash cans and recycling bins are put in place to be used by the party-goers. Although these tourists may not realize the harm they cause to the beaches, it is something that needs to be voiced in order for more people to educate themselves on their actions that cause such detriments to the environment. There are many different beach clean up committees that are hosted by different organizations as well as high schools but the trash that slips away from our grasp and travels out into the ocean leds to the millions of other tons of trash found out in our seas. The number of ocean pollution each year increases and spring break in Fort Lauderdale does not help that cause.

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https://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/03/20/garbage-mixed-with-sand-left-after-spring-break-in-fort-lauderdale/

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#fort lauderdale #spring break #pollution

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We pulled 5 TONS of plastic out of the ocean to build a 4 story tall whale out of it, in order to call attention to the other 149,999,995 tons of plastic waste still swimming out there

By: Annette Yates and Rachel Morin

The Trash Isles

There is a total of eight million tons of plastic in the ocean a year, this is the equivalent of having a garbage truck full of trash be dumped in the ocean every minute. Studies have shown that there is now so much plastic and pollution in the seas that an area the size of France has actually formed in the Pacific Ocean, it is known as the Trash Isles. Some states have been participating in an attempt to mitigate the flow of trash into the Pacific, the state of Hawaii, as well as many on shore cities and countries, joined the ban to use plastic shopping bags by 2015. The ban was heavily supported by local conservation groups, such as the the Sierra Club and the Surfrider Foundation. The ban is part of a movement being pushed by many organizations, such as Californians Against Waste, to switch from plastic shopping bags to reusable bags. On its website, the California group framed plastic ocean pollution as a financial issue, saying that local and state agencies spend “millions each year in cleanup costs alone.”

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https://www.change.org/p/un-secretary-general-ant%C3%B3nio-guterres-accept-the-trash-isles-as-an-official-country-help-protect-our-oceans

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#trashisles #ocean pollution

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