Water pollution: a ticking time bomb

Too often taken for granted, oceans provide various vital benefits to our planet. While largely helping the Earth, they are also necessary to our own survival. We, humankind, must protect such water masses to sustain not only our water, food and oxygen intake, but also climate regulation, land habitats, numerous jobs and so on. As a matter of fact, they absorb almost one-fourth of the carbon dioxide we release annually. In addition, marine environments have allowed for many scientific discoveries, which are far from having covered the entirety of the subject. They hide countless mysteries…