The True Scale of Ocean Pollution

Today we're investigating the many different ways the ocean has been polluted, using a book I've been reading lately, The Swarm by Frank Schatzing, as my guide!

Join me in the wonderful world of dumping all your problems into the ocean, where nuclear submarine, mustard gas, sulfuric acid, and heaps and heaps of trash are only the tip of the iceberg.

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Special thanks the @StefanMilo for lending his voice to author of The Swarm Frank Schatzing!

Check out the interactive map of chemical weapons dumping here:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1IU5kWbDrPOrUccOrQ0In4Ca-zWQ&hl=en_US&ll=29.563469741483345%2C-3.427734375&z=2

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Sources / Further Reading:

https://www.epa.gov/sites/defa....ult/files/2015-10/do

https://www.iaea.org/sites/def....ault/files/314046847

http://large.stanford.edu/cour....ses/2017/ph241/steve

http://large.stanford.edu/cour....ses/2017/ph241/stevedocs/guruswamy.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20....070614060141/http://

http://large.stanford.edu/cour....ses/2017/ph241/stevedocs/iaea_vol36_no2.pdf

https://nuclear.jrc.ec.europa.....eu/tipins/contracts/

https://www.bbc.com/future/art....icle/20200901-the-ra

https://web.archive.org/web/20....070828095122/http://

https://e360.yale.edu/features..../radioactivity_in_th

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1....982/08/30/A-Dutch-fr

https://www.oecd-nea.org/rwm/p....rofiles/Spain_report

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-launched-over-ddt-ocean-dumping-off-southern-california-2021-05-27/#:~:text=%E2%80%94%20Following%20the%20recent%20discovery%20that,Diversity%20sent%20Montrose%20Chemical%20Corp.&text=facility%20to%20barges%2C%20where%20they,ocean%20near%20Santa%20Catalina%20Island.

https://nonproliferation.org/c....hemical-weapon-munit

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=5.368292378570188%2C0&z=2&mid=1ALnyOrN5JQ8H50znwJqI_Sj8IwE

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com..../science-nature/deca

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/arti....cle/environment-heal

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-40311-4

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https://www.spiegel.de/interna....tional/europe/legacy

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/node/6619

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48949113

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsEtq5Pe5Yg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWKAfqL-F2c
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-40311-4

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