• Question: Do you know how to help water?And do you think some of the oceans will disappear in a few years

    Asked by JoeyDman to Maxime, Jake, Annette on 13 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by Doughnut girl 🍩.
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      Jake Cunningham answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      One way to help water is to reduce the amount of litter that is going into the sea and other water sources. There are some projects going on to take away some of the rubbish that is also in the sea. One of the projects is called the seabin. There was one seabin that was installed in Howth harbour recently and there are 2 in Dun Laoghaire, 1 in Bangor, and 1 in Dingle. The oceans won’t be disappearing any time soon, in fact one of the worries from climate change is that the sea levels will rise. I hope this answers your question, although maybe some of my fellow scientists will have something more to add.

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    Philip commented on :

    Also, a problem for our waters is the increasing level of acidity (dropping pH level) due to increased ocncentrations of e.g. CO2 in the atmosphere. This casues troubles to the fine-tuned balance of ecosystems, including animals as well as plants. So reducing the emissions of gases from combustions (factories, cars, heating systems of houses, ships, planes, etc.) would help.

    The Oceans won’t disappear soon. But not so long time ago (geologically speaking) in the past, for example, (between 5.96 and 5.33 million years ago) the Mediterranean Sea was closed off from the Atlantic at the Strait of Gibraltar – that caused major evaporation within the Mediterranean Sea and dropping water levels of several hundreds of meters.