"We are urging the government and beach managers to adopt a mandatory national scheme to provide permanent public information about storm pollution on every bathing beach, " said Mr Bell.
Following the heavy pollution of the beach, the local population of this starfish fell from more than a hundred and fifty to just thirteen, pushing this particular colony to the edge of extinction.
Until about two decades ago, Cox's Bazar was a sleepy beach town which attracted mostly Bangladeshis looking to escape the noise and pollution of big cities like Dhaka and Chittagong.
The State of the Air report also ranked the Los Angeles-Long Beach- Riverside area as having the third-highest level of annual particle pollution in the nation and the fourth-highest level of short-term particle pollution.
The main beach in Weston-super-Mare received a pass in the MCS Good Beach Guide study, which focuses entirely on water quality standards and the risk of sewage pollution.
The Marine Conservation Society also found high levels of pollution at East Bay in Helensburgh, Footabrough in Shetland, and Edinburgh's Cramond Beach.