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A swimmer stops short of a red algae bloom at Sydney's Clovelly
BeachWilliam West/AFP
World Oceans Day 2016This year's theme is Healthy Oceans,
Healthy Planet, aiming to raise awareness of plastic pollution.
Plastic is a serious threat because it degrades very slowly,
polluting waterways for a very long time. In addition, plastic
pollution impacts the health of aquatic animals because animals,
including zooplankton, mistake the microbeads used in beauty
products for food. Marine turtles often eat plastic bags, mistaking
them for jellyfish.
A man wades through rubbish floating on the Estero de Vitas
estuary in Tondo, Manila, the PhilippinesNoel Celis/AFP
A volunteer tries to reach out to help an oil-soaked bird that
washed ashore at Refugio State Beach Campground in Goleta,
California, after an oil spillLara Cooper/Reuters
A boy searches for fish in the polluted sea backwaters near
marina beach in the southern Indian city of ChennaiBabu/Reuters
People swim at an algae-covered public beach in Qingdao,
northeast China's Shandong provinceAFP
Rubbish is strewn along a beach in Anquan village, south China's
Hainan provinceAFP
Smog covers the skyline of Beirut while empty plastic bottles
litter the shore of the Mediterranean off Dbayeh, a suburb of the
Lebanese capitalJoseph Eid/AFP
A shopping trolley and tyres lie on the sea floor in Marseille
harbourBoris Horvat/AFP
An exhausted oil-covered brown pelican sits in a pool of oil
along Queen Bess Island Pelican Rookery in Louisiana after BP's
Gulf of Mexico oil spillSean Gardner/Reuters
Waste plastics are strewn on Bao beach near Dakar,
SenegalSeyllou/AFP
Dead fish float on the surface of the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon
in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilSergio Moraes/Reuters
Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the
offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico off
LouisianaUS Coast Guard/Reuters
A fisherman mends his boat as a fellow fisherman carries a box
of fish at a polluted beach in Cilincing, north Jakarta,
IndonesiaBeawiharta/Reuters
A resident shows a handful of dead shrimps which were washed up
on a beach at Coronel in Chile, after water used to cool two
thermoelectric plants located next to the beach was reportedly
discharged into the seaJose Luis Saavedra/Reuters
Staff and volunteers work to clean oil off a brown pelican after
up to 2,500 barrels (105,000 gallons) of oil gushed onto San
Refugio State Beach in California and into the PacificLucy
Nicholson/Reuters
Plastic waste collected in the sea by fishermen is seen in
Naquera, eastern SpainPedro Armestre/AFP
Plastic waste collected in the sea by fishermen is seen in
Naquera, eastern SpainPedro Armestre/AFP
A swimmer wears some of the algae polluting the sea off the
coast of Qingdao. ChinaChina Daily/Reuters
A boy collects recyclable items from polluted waters in front of
fishing boats at Karachi harbour, PakistanAkhtar Soomro/Reuters
A fishermen pulls in his fishing net as foamy discharge, caused
by pollutants, mixes with surf at a beach in Chennai, IndiaAFP
Fishermen prepare to fish amid floating rubbish off the shore of
Manila Bay, the PhilippinesErik de Castro/Reuters
Red tide and garbage pollution are seen in the sea in Qingdao,
China.
Trash and debris from previous storms accumulate in Seal Beach,
California, near the mouth of the San Gabriel River.
Plastic bottles and other waste cover a beach after being washed
ashore near the port of Abidjan, Ivory CoastIssouf Sanogo/AFP
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