There is no marine pollution, the ship is not damaged but stuck on the sand.
Few countries have adopted legislation to reduce land-based marine pollution, leading to an increase in the number of dead ocean areas.
The major threats are from coastal development, destructive fishing practices, overexploitation of marine resources, marine pollution and sedimentation from inland deforestation and farming.
The arrangement will see the BP chartered anchor handling vessel "Grampian Frontier" being drafted in to help in the event of a marine pollution incident.
Their findings are published in the July 2012 Marine Pollution Bulletin.
Some of the key areas highlighted included marine biodiversity conservation, ocean acidification, marine pollution, and the required investment in science and capacity development for transitioning to a blue-green economy.
Experts gave an overview of current threats and challenges, including declining coral reefs and acidification (Scott Doney), sea level rise (Joe Appiott), coastal erosion, land-based sources of marine pollution, and overfishing (Brittany Baschuk).
LOST's provisions on prevention of marine pollution from land-based sources could easily serve as a convenient peg on which to hang the greenhouse gas-regulating Kyoto Protocol, even though that treaty has also never been ratified.
With a focus on key topical issues such as marine pollution, exploitation and hazards, chapters range from the history of ocean management to current advances in marine science, observation and management applications, and the international agencies active in co-ordinating this work.
Even the most potentially disturbing suggestion, which involves fertilising the oceans with iron in order to promote the growth of planktonic algae (in the hope that they would sink to the seabed, taking their carbon with them), can be covered by the London Convention on marine pollution, which regulates dumping at sea, and has already addressed itself to research in the area.
Together they cover the spectrum of marine science, marine conservation and pollution regulation.
One test site, in Galway Bay, is up and running, and IBM has been working with SEAI there already to monitor wave conditions, acoustics, marine life and pollution levels in and around the bay.
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It would get consumed by all sorts of marine life and cause vast death and pollution.
The Marine Conservation Society also found high levels of pollution at East Bay in Helensburgh, Footabrough in Shetland, and Edinburgh's Cramond Beach.
The project looks at four main threats to coral reefs -- marine-based threats, over-fishing, coastal development, and land-based sources of pollution -- in six main coral reef regions.
The story beginning overleaf assesses the implications for marine biodiversity of transgressing planetary boundaries, due to human-induced changes to the climate system, pollution and ocean acidification, as well as more direct threats like invasive species, overfishing and habitat destruction.
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