Automatic for the Oceans
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by Brian Gallagher
Jun 30, 2022
2 minutes
What’s enchanting about our oceans is how unexplored they still are, teeming with unknown species. Scientists add, on average, around 2,000 new entries to the World Register of Marine Species every year. It can be profoundly moving to fathom the scale of sea life and the strange forms it can take.
The sobering reality is that, because of human activities and climate change, much of ocean life is threatened.study made headlines for concluding that, if carbon emissions accelerate, the amount of ocean species dying off would “culminate in a mass extinction rivaling those in Earth’s past.” Who doesn’t find it more than disheartening to imagine such a source of wonder forever fading from view?
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