I wrote earlier today about how a part of the Pacific Ocean is filled with plastic crap. It didn’t come as a big surprise that I found some other bad news about the ocean. According to an article at livescience.com a study by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have found chemicals made by humans in creatures living deep below the ocean surface. The chemicals were found in different species of cephalopods (among the species were octopods, squids, cuttlefishes and nautiluses) which are food for larger animals in the sea.
Among the chemicals that were found were DDT, PCBs and BDEs, all dangerous chemicals that don’t degrade and will get accumulated in bigger animals like different types of whales. The researches were quite surprised to find such chemicals and even high levels of them in an ecosystem so remote from us humans.
I have to say it again: Stop polluting our oceans please!
1pamel on Jun 19, 2008 at 5:35 am:
I agree with you, it is up to us to protect all wildlife as much as we can. I am trying to protect the buffalo herd at Yellowstone. Every year they get slaughtered on a roundup just because they want to migrate to their original orgin/grounds. It’s senseless they try to say all the ones they kill are a threat to the cows. They say that they all have disease, yet they don’t test them prior to slaughtering. It is bad when people of this earth can’t respect our mammals of the ocean and all other animals on this earth. They were here in many places way before us and they should not be hurt by senseless chemicals, trash, or oil spills nor just plain slaugter to keep them to a confined place when they want to roam free as they have done for many years before we invaded their territory. http://www.lifesjourneypw.blogspot.com — many thanks for your efforts and love for our enviroment. Pamel