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Scrubber Discharge Toxic to Marine Organisms, Worsens Water Quality: ICCT
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Thursday April 29, 2021 Groynes, Baltic Sea. File Image / Pixabay The amount and location of washwater discharged at sea from emissions abatement equipment scrubbers has been analysed in a new report. The publication, from the International Council on Clean Transport, uses pre-pandemic data on shipping movements to project where and by how much scrubber washwater deposits will be made. It assumes
3,600 ships use scrubbers (the figure at the end of 2020). The estimated discharge from ships with scrubbers installed is said to be
10 gigatonnes where around
Starfish Could Be Drowning as Climate Change Leads to Oceans Warming
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Though many people still deny there is any climate change, effects of global warming can be observed all across the planet. The latest confirmed victim of rising temperature is starfish.
According to new research, starfish are going through sea star wasting disease (SSWD). The study suggests they could be in respiratory distress where they “drown” in their habitat. While the obvious question is how can a sea creature drown, the answer lies in their breathing mechanism.
One of the scientists from Cornell University, Microbiology professor Ian Hewson explains how these ancient creatures breathe. The sea dwellers have structures known as papulae, or skin gills, on their body surface. Through these structures, they diffuse oxygen into their body. “If there is not enough oxygen surrounding the papulae, the starfish can’t breathe,” Hewson explains in a statement published on the Cornell Uni