Our Ocean is Our Future
The ocean, weather and climate are linked. It is vital the COP21 climate talks in Paris secure a healthy future for our ocean.
A healthy, productive ocean can provide us with a buffer against the impact of climate change. So far it has absorbed around thirty per cent of the carbon dioxide emissions caused by humans. It has also absorbed around ninety per cent of the associated increase in heat in the past 200 years.
Put simply, our ocean has protected us from ourselves.
But our ocean is in crisis. Читать дальше...