Ocean has been very important part of our ecosystem with the regulation of the worlds’s climate and weather, supporting marine life along with providing us with food, and ingredients for many of our resources. With the increase in amount of water pollution and Plastic Pollution being a major threat to the ocean life, Our Ocean has been a major threat of the current environmental degradation.

World Oceans Day is a celebration of the globe's oceans. June 8^th is World Oceans Day - the day to celebrate the majesty of the world's oceans and raise awareness about their preservation. The purpose of the Day is to inform the public of the impact of human actions on the ocean, develop a worldwide movement of citizens for the ocean, and mobilize and unite the world’s population on a project for the sustainable management of the world's oceans.

The United Nation's World Oceans Day designated theme this year is "Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean".

Earth is our home and Ocean has been an inevitable part of marine ecosystem which we are turning into an environmental catastrophe with pollution. Due to the pandemics of Covid19, many countries are still following Lockdown are maintain social distance. So, I am lisiting few books related to ocean so that you can read these books and learn more about ocean during this period. I do hope everyone of us find a time a read a book related to ocean and celebrate world ocean day.

      Sea Around Us

Sea Around US, a wonderful book by Rachel Carson published in 1951 is one of the successful book written about the natural world which won both the 1952 National Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal. The book on New York Times best-seller list is a rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose. Million copies of the book has already been sold with the book being translated to 28 languages. This book has inspired an Academy Award-winning documentary too.

Oceans today being endangered by plastic pollution and the dumping of waste this book provides a timely reminder of both the fragility and the importance of the ocean and the life that abounds within it. This book will be everyone’s who is concerned about natural environment and marine ecosystem and

    Plastic Ocean

Plastic Ocean is a book by by Charles Moore and Cassandra Phillips published in 2012. This is a book about How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans. This book is discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean in 1997, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis. Bring an urgent call to action, this book unveils the secret life of plastics embraced by anyone who are into deadly impact and implications of plastic pollution which has turned out to be a man-made environmental catastrophe.

This book brings a findings that makes an immediate need to take actions against the increasing plastic pollution.

     Junk Raft

Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution is a book by Marcus Eriksen published in 2017. With the ocean being a major threat of Plastic Pollution, this book takes you to a perfect journey to rise a hero inside you to fight plastic pollution.

Marcus Eriksen has devoted his live to raising the public's awareness about the growing problem of plastic pollution in the world's oceans and states then that his goal is “to end the throwaway culture” and on his sea voyage from Los Angeles to Hawaii, he discovers the threat of marine plastic waste

This book tells the exciting story of his seafaring adventure, with fight to raise the public’s awareness about plastic pollution. Although book doesn’t have any pictures, this is truly an motivation book everyone should read to take a step ahead to fight against plastic pollution.

References

PETIT, H.  Ocean Importance. Retrieved from WWF: https://wwf.panda.org/our_work/oceans/open_ocean/ocean_i

UN. 2020. World Ocean Day 2020. Retrieved from UN:

https://www.un.org/en/observances/oceans-day

WOD. 2020. World Ocean Day. Retrieved from:

https://worldoceansday.org/