Pages tagged with “acidification”

• Oceans

  ‘We have underestimated the overall risk [to the oceans] … the whole of marine degradation is greater than the sum of its parts, and that degradation is now happening at a faster rate than predicted’. IPSO, 2011 Oceans make up over 70% of our planet. They provide many millions of people with food and livelihoods, buffer coastal communities against storms…

• Pollution

  Although they make up over 70% of the planet’s surface, there is no part of the oceans that is untouched by humans in some form. One of the most visible effects of this anthropogenic domination is pollution. This can take many forms; for example, agricultural fertilisers travel down rivers and spill out into estuaries, along with sediment and chemical waste.…