Fish stocks in the Philippines have reduced by 90 percent in the last 50 years. With the population of the Philippines expected to be over 100 million in 30 years, there is concern as to how the population will cope with less fish available to catch and eat....
Climate change is the key criminal in the open ocean. Warming surface waters make it harder for oxygen to reach the inside of the ocean. Furthermore, as the ocean as a whole gets warmer, it holds less oxygen. In coastal waters, excess nutrient pollution from land creates algal blooms, whi...
And the reason it keeps getting worse is that, after a natural catastrophe, like a hurricane, it used to be that there was some kind of successional sequence of recovery, but what's going on now is that overfishing and pollution and climate change are all interacting in a way that ...
Paleontological reconstructions of plankton community structure during warm periods of the Cenozoic (last 66 million years) reveal that deep-dwelling ‘twilight zone’ (200–1000 m) plankton were less abundant and diverse, and lived much closer to the
And then they used climate change models to see what would happen to the oceans both with additional(额外的) planet-heating pollution and without.The color changes matched almost exactly what Dutkiewicz said would happen if greenhouse gases were added to the atmosphere - around 50% of our ...
The Global Plastic Treaty can clean up the past and protect the future Persistent legacy plastic fragments are rising disproportionally faster than larger floating objects in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Kingston, Jamaica: our blueprint for a pragmatic approach to tackling plastic pollution and ...
While less frequent than the pollution that occurs from daily operations, oil spills have devastating effects. While being toxic to marine life,polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), the components in crude oil, are very difficult to clean up, and last for years in the sediment and marine ...
land-based pollution, and habitat degradation are threatening the productivity and health of the ocean (Fig.1). It is in this context that over the last few years, scientists and societal actors have organized a bottom-up movement, which has ultimately led to the United Nations General Assembly...
The Ocean Cleanup has agreed its first partnership in India, teaming up with Bharat Clean Rivers Foundation to collaborate on their campaign to tackle plastic pollution in the nation’s rivers… Rivers Kingston, Jamaica: The first Interceptor city ...
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