EnvironmentCalifornia.org continues to encourage people to not use plastic bags due to the large amount of pollution they are causing to our ocean wildlife. More than 90% of ocean debris is made up of plastic trash. Since this article was written, the state of California has passed prop 67 (ban on use of plastic bags). Over 150 communities in California have already gone bag free. Just with the 150 communities participating, we have reduced use of plastic bags by 6 billion. If we continue to reduce the use of plastic bags we can save the ocean wildlife, one sea turtle at a time.
I believe that the plastic bag ban is beneficial to the environment and that we should work towards a plastic bag ban across the nation. Although this article was written a couple months prior to the election, we can still work to better the ban on plastic bags. Using reusable bags will help reduce the amount of plastic being shot into the oceans and will cut back on the amount of pollution in our waters.
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NASA plans to launch ICESat-2 in 20118. They have collected data from Greenland as apart of their Arctic ice over survey in the past couple years. Airborne missions alone have advanced scientific understanding of Arctic sea and land ice since the program launched nine years ago. According to nasa spring 2017 was the most abundant in the data collection over Greenland. From these airborne surveys, scientists found that the layer of snow covering sea ice on the Eurasian side was thinner than models predicted. Previous surveys consisted of 39 8-hour flights over 10 weeks, with 13 expeditions focused on sea ice and the other 26 focused on land ice. This summer, IceBride will continue their data collection to see how the arctic sea and land is affected by the melt season.
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