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Malvika Padin

World Ocean Day - 5 of the worst threats to the oceans from plastic to noise

Oceans cover more than 70 percent of our planet. From cleaning the air and providing livelihoods to millions, to being the home for all marine life, the importance and value of this natural resource is pretty hard to measure.

Most of us know how important oceans are for all life on Earth, despite this the water bodies remain bombarded with various types of pollutions that threaten it.

In honour of World Ocean Day, marked every year on June 8, here are the most common and worst threats faced by the ocean from heaps of trash to plastic, fertilisers and even noise.

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