Sentences with phrase «devastated ocean ecosystems»

Heather Birch, a Cardiff University PhD from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences who led the study, said: «The global catastrophe that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also devastated ocean ecosystems.

Also, as the United States and world are witnessing now, even rigs and platforms equipped with» fool proof technology» are prone to spills that can devastate our ocean ecosystems and the billion dollar coastal economies that depend on them.

These massive facilities are essentially floating factory farms that devastate our ocean ecosystem, public health, society and the economy.

Not exact matches

Where atmospheric CO2 works on a rather abstract, global scale, ocean acidification works on the local one as well, devastating or sometimes completely destroying local ecosystems.

Rising CO2 emissions, and the increasing acidity of seawater over the next century, has the potential to devastate some marine ecosystems, a food resource on which we rely, and so careful monitoring of changes in ocean acidity is crucial.

Ocean acidification could devastate coral reefs and other marine ecosystems even if atmospheric carbon dioxide stabilizes at 450 ppm, a level well below that of many climate change forecasts, report chemical oceanographers Long Cao and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.