- Greatest Threat
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
- Coral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
- Florida
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it's like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about. They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
- Drains
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
- Creatures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020