Plastic Pollution - march current event

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/plastic-pollution-increases-risk-devastating-disease-corals?mode=topic&context=60&tgt=nr

As we have talked about waste and the all the plastic we consume and use and make more pollution this article shows a good reason as why we should be more careful with what we do with plastic. Coral reefs in the Asia Pacific area are getting diseases and sicknesses because of the plastic polluting the water, and eventually dying more. The reefs get the microbes inside them that can get as big as a ping pong ball, researchers state. This article is really effecting because we should know what we do with our plastic to not contaminate our waters and kill off coral reefs. I found it interesting that it said the Indonesian waters have higher percentage of this happening than the Australian waters. The pollution of plastic has gotten out of control and we need to help make it better, if the coral reefs start to die then everything else will be out of whack.

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  1. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2018 at 10:10 PM

    I agree, and this is true that with the downfall of coral reefs will come the downfall of many other oceanic organisms as coral reefs are key species in almost all food chains or are key to the everyday life of any specific oceanic organism.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2018 at 5:04 AM

    This was the article I did. It is very scary that we are killing our coral reefs because we do not know how to take care of our plastic waste. Need to start taking care of these things so we do not kill off our ocean life and start diseases.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2018 at 5:04 AM

    This was the article I did. It is very scary that we are killing our coral reefs because we do not know how to take care of our plastic waste. Need to start taking care of these things so we do not kill off our ocean life and start diseases.

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