Question

A ship is grounded at sea. Oil from the ship is polluting the sea water. Find out what harm it can cause to aquatic life?

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

Over 90 percent of world trade is carried across the world’s oceans by some 90,000 marine vessels. Like all modes of transportation that use fossil fuels, ships produce carbon dioxide emissions that significantly contribute to global climate change and acidification. Besides carbon dioxide ships also release a handful of other pollutants that contribute to the problem.

The shipping industry is responsible for a significant proportion of the global climate change problem. More than three percent of global carbon dioxide emissions can be attributed to ocean-going ships. This is an amount comparable to major carbon-emitting countries -- and the industry continues to grow rapidly.

In fact, if global shipping were a country, it would be the sixth largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Only the United States, China, Russia, India and Japan emit more carbon dioxide than the world’s shipping fleet. Nevertheless, carbon dioxide emissions from ocean-going vessels are currently unregulated.

Oceana is working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping industry by petitioning the government to regulate shipping emissions.

What Oceana Does

Working with Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth and the Center for Biological Diversity, Oceana petitioned the EPA to regulate shipping emissions in October 2007.

Unfortunately, since the EPA did not respond accordingly, in July 2008 Oceana, along with the coalition of environmental groups and attorneys general from various states, filed a letter warning the EPA of impeding litigation if it does not respond to the petition.

Oceana has the following recommendations to reduce global ship emissions:

- Shipping fleets should implement technical and operational measures to reduce global warming pollution immediately. Such measures include speed reductions, weather routing, fuel switching and specialized hull coatings.

- Fleets should begin to implement longer-term measures to reduce global warming pollution, such as fuel-efficient design of new ships and engines created specifically for slow steaming.

- The IMO should set international emission standards to reduce global warming pollutants from the shipping industry.

Hope it helps you then please mark it as brainlist

Answer 2

Answer:

Ships grounded at sea are major contributors to ocean pollution(underwater pollution), especially when crude oil spills occur. Crude oil lasts for a long time in the ocean and is pretty difficult to clean up from the water body.

Explanation:

• Most oils float on the oceans’ saltwater or freshwater from rivers and lakes. Oil usually spreads out rapidly across the water’s surface to form a thin oil slick.

• As the oil keeps spreading, the smooth slick becomes more and more slender, at last turning into an extremely meagre sheen, which frequently seems to be a rainbow.

The harmful effects crude oil spills can cause to aquatic life:

• Oil on sea surfaces is harmful to many types of oceanic life since it keeps adequate measures of daylight from entering the surface, and it likewise lessens the degree of broken-up oxygen.

• Contingent upon the conditions, oil slicks can be exceptionally unsafe to marine birds, ocean turtles and vertebrates, and can affect fish and shellfish.

• A couple of up to hundreds or thousands of birds, fish, warm-blooded creatures, reptiles, corals and different creatures and plants can be killed or harmed given hypothermia.
• Oil ruins the insulating and waterproofing ability of fur-bearing warm-blooded creatures, like ocean otters, and the water-repulsing capacities of a bird's quills, presenting them to the cruel components.

• Many birds and creatures likewise swallow the oil and are harmed when they attempt to clean themselves or while eating oiled prey.

• Fish and shellfish can likewise process oil, which could cause changes in proliferation, development rates or even passing that might be polluted.

• Economically significant species like shellfish, shrimp, Mahi, grouper, swordfish and fish additionally could endure populace declines or become excessively defiled to be securely gotten and eaten.
• Harm to vegetation can be considered also; saltwater bogs and mangroves are two outstanding shore biological systems that oftentimes experience the ill effects of oil slicks.

#SPJ2