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New York Times (newspaper), land-based, 24–26
17–18 from seagoing vessels, 8
noise, impact on coral reefs, sources of, 23
44 from spills, 9
North Pacific Gyre, 14 threat to sea otters from,
nurdles, 16–17 29–30
oil tankers, 9, 58
Ocean Conservancy, 10–11, accidents involving, 21, 22,
12, 20, 23, 47, 70 22–23
Ocean Health Index, 7 leakage from, 8
ocean pollution requirement for double hulls
from agriculture, 38–40 on, 57–58
chemical, 36–37
efforts to address, 9 Pacific Ocean
forms of, 7 deepest point in, 6
heavy metal, 36–37 garbage gyres in, 11, 14,
impact on coral reefs, 48–50 15–16
from land-based sources, most remote point in, 10
34–36 Papoulias, Diana, 38
marine protected areas, 57 Persian Gulf War (1991), 24
radioactive, 35 persistent organic pollutants
from seagoing vessels, 8 (POPs), 36–37
ways to make difference in, pesticides, 7, 38, 41
68 pharmaceuticals, coral reefs as
See also plastics/plastic source of, 45
pollution phthalates, 19
oceans plastics/plastic pollution, 7–8,
dead zones in, 34 17
gyres in, 14, 16 Canada’s ban on single-use,
percentage of earth’s surface 9
covered by, 31 fate of all ever produced, 12
oil pollution impacts on coral reefs, 50
advances in cleanup of spills, most abundant types of, 12
55–56 number of years needed to
efforts to prevent, 57–58 biodegrade, by type, 13
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