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Vanishing Ocean Scene Highlights Global Degradation
An international study in Science reports that more than 40 percent of the world’s oceans have been degraded by human activity, with impacts including poorer water quality fish declines coral die-off and mangrove loss. The map shows red high impact areas from the northeast U.S. coast through the Caribbean Mediterranean Persian Gulf Red Sea Bering Sea to parts of the western Pacific.
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Philadelphia
New Jersey
South America
Science
Benjamin S. Halpern
Joshua S. Reichert
Pew Environment Group
Reichert
Earth
Nature
David Kirchman
University of Delaware
Kirchman
Poles
Halpern
National Center For Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
University of California, Santa Barbara
United States
Caribbean
Mediterranean
Persian Gulf
Red Sea
Bering Sea
South
East China Seas
Western Pacific
AP File
NEW England Aquarium
Phoenix Islands
Kiribati
Central Pacific Islands