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!