Pencemaran laut

Sementara pencemaran laut mungkin jelas, untuk puing laut ditunjukkan di atas, pencemar merupakan yang kerap tidak boleh dilihat yang menyebabkan keburukan.

Pencemaran laut berlaku apabila kesan berbahaya, atau mungkin berbahaya, terjadi akibat kemasukan bahan kimia, zarah, sisa-sisa industri, pertanian dan perumahan, bunyi, atau ketersebaran organisma invasif ke dalam laut. Kebanyakan sumber pencemaran laut berdasarkan darat. Pencemaran kerap datang daripada sumber bukan tentu seperti larian pertanian, puing tiupan angin. Pencemaran nutrien, satu bentuk pencemaran air, merujuk kontaminasi oleh kemasukan berlebihan nutrien. Ini merupakan sebab utama eutrofikasi air permukaan, yang melibatkan nutrien berlebihan, biasanya nitrogen atau fosforus, merangsang pertumbuhan alga.

Lihat juga

• Puing laut
• Pencemaran nutrien
• Konvensyen Stockholm tentang Pencemar Organik Kekal
• Kesan persekitaran racun haiwan perosak

Rujukan

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• UNEP/GPA (2006) The State of the Marine Environment: Trends and processes Diarkibkan 2007-06-13 di Wayback Machine United Nations Environment Programme, Global Programme of Action, The Hague. 2006 ISBN 92-807-2708-7.
• UNEP (2007) Land-based Pollution in the South China Sea. UNEP/GEF/SCS Technical Publication No 10.

Pautan luar

• Coastal Pollution Information from the Coastal Ocean Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Mercury pollution
• How Oil Spill Absorbent Products Work
• Facts about Marine Mercury Pollution from Oceana.org Diarkibkan 2007-03-14 di Wayback Machine
• Science News / Marine Pollution Spawns 'wonky Babies'
• Plastics at SEA: North Atlantic Expedition
• Plastic Trash Plagues the Ocean, Trashing the Ocean, Oil's Impact on Marine Invertebrates on the Smithsonian Ocean Portal
• How the oceans can clean themselves – TED Talk