2.  Types of pollution caused by the Japan’s Tsunami: › Water pollution  Soil Contaminants and physical contaminants;  Oil spills; › Nuclear pollution

3.  A worldwide contamination (developed countries) of the ocean water are due to land runoff, bringing contaminants into the water, such as chemical fertilizers, detergents, sewage, herbicides, etc.

4. › Nitrogen-rich fertilizers increase algae when flowed into the ocean. This latter robs the oxygen from the water causing no marine life possible. › Everything comes back into the food chain, where we end up consuming ourselves.

5.  Other common pollutants would be solid wastes such as plastic bags, and other solid items dumped in to the oceans where aquatic animals mistake them as food.

6.  Oil spills (in this case) is due to immersion and damages of cars and boats. › Possible of light oil and heavy oil spills:  Light oil: highly flammable, highly toxic, evaporates quickly  Heavy oil: less toxic, but high life span over water. Hardens on shore coasts, can suffocate aquatic life in water

7.  This video showing the water washing everything away, but also how people were trying to reach to higher grounds  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaTod ay#p/u/60/vC0OFT8WWHk http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaTod ay#p/u/60/vC0OFT8WWHk

8.  Iodine 129 and Iodine 131 › Thyroid constantly absorbs iodine › Cannot tell apart from radioactive and nonradiactive iodine  Prevention: › Raise concentration of stable iodine in blood › Iodized table salt is useful to maintain health, but strong but NOT anti-radiation! › Excess or too little is not good for health:  Thyroid disease

9.  Cesium 137 › Increase risk of cancer › Higher concentration in muscles than in bone and fat › Decay time: 30.17 years  Prevention: › Cesium in environment cannot be avoided › Remains short time in body and eliminated through urine.

10.  Contamination of the air: › Forced up to higher atmosphere, particles would be carried around by the jet stream  Contamination of the ecosystems: › Iodine -131 (through milk, accumulated in thyroid)  Farm in Hitachi, 27 times higher than acceptable  Dairy farm in Iitate, 18 times higher than acceptable

11. › Cesium 137 (damage cells, increase risk of cancer)  4 times higher than normal  Human contamination: › Over exposure to radioactive environment › Human body a walking contamination

12. › http://www.greenlivingtips.com/blogs/164/Ef fects-of-oil-spills.html http://www.greenlivingtips.com/blogs/164/Ef fects-of-oil-spills.html › http://www.ehow.com/about_5434352_oil- spills-affect-ocean.html http://www.ehow.com/about_5434352_oil- spills-affect-ocean.html

13. › http://www.ehow.com/facts_5933006_do- oil-spills-affect-animals_.html http://www.ehow.com/facts_5933006_do- oil-spills-affect-animals_.html › Soil pollutants: http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/oce an/critical-issues-marine-pollution/ http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/oce an/critical-issues-marine-pollution/ › Nuclear contamination: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/world/ asia/21japan.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/world/ asia/21japan.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2