Ocean Facts

Answers to your questions about our oceans and coasts.

Pollution:

What is ocean acidification?

What are PBDEs?

Will debris from the Japan tsunami reach the U.S.?

What is ghostfishing?

Could a hurricane make a large oil spill worse?

How does oil impact marine life?

What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

Why do we study PCBs if they were banned in 1979?

What are PCBs?

What is nutrient pollution?

What is a dead zone?

What is marine debris?

Can marine debris degrade on its own in the environment?

What is the biggest source of ocean pollution?

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