« Chris Messina on OpenID | Main | Five sci-fi scenarios » February 19, 2008Human impact on oceans A new study has mapped the impact of 17 different human activities on ocean ecosystems. [Link] "This project allows us to finally start to see the big picture of how humans are affecting the oceans," said Ben Halpern, assistant research scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who led the research. "Our results show that when these and other individual impacts are summed up, the big picture looks much worse than I imagine most people expected. It was certainly a surprise to me." jon posted this at 6:17 AM |
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