Ocean Pollution Pictures |
| |
 |
Ocean Pollution, Ocean Garbage, and Marine Debris Photos |
 |
|
Toxic pollutants in the ocean have considerable impacts on plants and animals. Heavy metal poisoning from elements such as lead and mercury, caused by industry, builds up in the tissues of top predators such as whales and sharks, causing birth defects and nervous system damage. Dioxins from pulp and paper mills, and poly-aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH's) from oil pollution and burning wood and coal cause genetic problems in marine animals. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s) from electrical equipment can cause birth problems in most marine organisms. Sewage can cause massive nutrient loading in the oceans, which leads to algal blooms, effectively decreasing the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water and many organisms die from lack of oxygen. Sewage also introduces parasites and bacteria, which can cause beach and shellfish harvesting closures.
|
|
 |
 |
 |
Picture of oil pipes
and drilling rig on Endicott Island, Prudhoe Bay,
Alaska, USA.
Picture #: 068809 |
Image of brown bear,
Ursus arctos, or grizzly bear, Ursus
arctos horribiis, spring cub, digging in garbage
looking for food, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
Picture #: 053431 |
Stock photo of
oil from pollution on king comorant, Phalacrocorax
atriceps albiventer, Falklands, Atlantic
Picture #: 069131 |
Photo of tugs manoevering
an oil tanker near Valdez in Prince William Sound,
Alaska
Picture #: 068181 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Picture of beach pollution.
After winter storms, raw sewage and every possible
type of floating trash from modern urban life are
flushed down the Tijuana River from Mexico and ultimately
end up in the ocean south of Imperial Beach San Diego
California.
Picture #: 067468 |
Image of a pumping unit
in the oil fields near Niznevartovsk. Khanty Mansiysk,
Western Siberia, Russia.
Picture #: 068830 |
Stock photo of a sperm
whale, Physeter macrocephalus, entangled in fishing
net, Mediterranean Sea, Italy
Picture #: 070503 |
Photo of a yellow moray
eel, Gymnothorax prasinus, tangled and dead
in a fishing line, found in Poor Knight Island Marine
Reserve - no fishing is allowed there - , New Zealand,
Pacific
Picture #: 076786 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Picture of
Endicott Oil Production Island, Prudhoe Bay on the
North Slope. Alaska, USA.
Picture #: 068813 |
Image of a sign warning
of water pollution from the outlet of a creek in
Santa Barbara California.
Picture #: 067464 |
Stock photo of garbage,
debris, discarded plastic bottles and other manmade
items pollute the Nu'u Pai Ponds Wildlife Management
Wetlands. Located on the windward side of Oahu, Hawaii
near the Marine Corps Base Kaneohe.
Picture #: 018315 |
Photo of oil drums
discarded by U.S. military on the Melville Peninsula,
Nunavut, Canada
Picture #: 068819 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Picture of an oil spill
from leaking pipes pollutes a lake near Niznevartovsk,
Khanty Mansiysk, West Siberia, Russia
Picture #: 068836 |
Image of garbage and
marine debris, at South Point, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 020011 |
Stock photo of ocean
sunfish, Mola mola, caught in tannara net in Mediterranean
Picture #: 070595 |
Photo of a beach sign
warning of sewage contaminated water. Raw sewage
and other pollution from the Tijuana River often
close beaches along Imperial Beach California after
winter storms.
Picture #: 067474 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Picture of Haitices
National Park, Buffer Zone, Dominican Republic, garbage
dump causing pollution
Picture #: 073250 |
Image of a volunteer
for the annual pier cleanup collecting garbage tossed
into the ocean, Kailua Kona, Hawaii, Pacific
Picture #: 074978 |
Stock photo of leaking
oil pipes causing pollution near Niznevartovsk,
Khanty Mansiysk, West Siberia, Russia
Picture #: 068837 |
Photo of basking shark
feeding, Cetorhinus maximus, England, North
Atlantic, tangled in marine debris, plastic band
hooked over snout
Picture #: 077347 |
|
|
|
|
|
