Sentences with phrase «ocean is under threat»

But the ocean is under threat, stressed by careless lifestyles and the increasing demands of a growing global population.

The world's oceans are under threat from both illegal and mass industrial fishing, in which millions of fish are caught and discarded, experts warned Tuesday.

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The public widely believes that the marine environment is under threat from human activities, and supports actions to protect the marine environment in their region, according to a new study to be published in the February issue of the journal Ocean and Coastal Management.

Two Atlantic Ocean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and polluOcean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and polluocean acidification and pollution.

Their mission was to study how the abundant marine life in these frigid waters will bear up under the stress of one of the world's most daunting, if least publicized, environmental threats: the rising acidity of the oceans.

«Whale sharks are under threat from human impacts of hunting and ship strike and it makes it much easier to plan for conservation if we only have to deal with neighbouring countries in each region rather than localities spread across the entire Indian Ocean.»

The fishermen and the Wildlife Health Center are working to remove lost crab fishing gear — which poses an entanglement threat to marine mammals — from the ocean, and sell it to the original owners under what they hope will be an economically sustainable model for future cleanups.

«Not only has its government listened to calls to protect the Belize Barrier Reef, which only last year was under threat from seismic oil exploration, it has stepped up to become a world leader in ocean protection by ending all oil activity in its waters.»

In the oceans, a huge underwater Wailord makes a big splash, as well as a school of Luvdisc — a heart - shaped and water - dwelling Pokémon — under the shadow of a looming threat as they are passed by a Sharpedo.

The rising amount of plastics found in the ocean causes turtles to be under constant threat.

And from that, they somehow decide that all the oceans of the world are «acidifying» and that all marine life is under severe threat.

In the Cook Islands here, but also in the Indian Ocean, atolls have almost disappeared, but the larger islands are under threat when the corals die.

But as carbon pollution warms the air and the ocean, there are signs that the region's stability is under threat.

New study published in Nature Climate Change says a combination of warming temperatures and ocean acidification is putting nearly all of the world's coral reefs under threat.

And political change is not the only source of instability: global warming has placed the tiny island nation of Tuvalu under a serious threat of disappearing beneath the Pacific Ocean and taking the popular.