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Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 4:22:06 GMT
In fact humans have utterly transformed the planets oceans decreasing the total biomass of fish by an estimated million tonnes since prehistoric times. Its thought that of the planets fish stocks have already been used up. There is a growing movement to change this. This year the United Nations UN signed a historic agreement the high seas treaty which aims to protect marine life in areas of the open ocean that are not controlled by any country. This vast swathe of the Earths surface which accounts for more than twothirds of the worlds oceans will no longer be a commons where anything goes at least that is the plan. A hidden underwater wonder Of Mobile App Development Service course humanity isnt aiming to stop fishing entirely. But what would the seas look like if we did decide to permanently abscond from it Asking this simple question can provide a surprising insight into the profound impact we are currently having on the planets largest ecosystem. Reveal what we can do to help it recover. A new abundance For decades after the Bikini Atoll experiments the islands were a place of ghosts other than caretakers no humans have lived there since the s. the boat into the atolls central lagoon in together with his colleague Elora LpezNandam now a postdoctoral researcher at California Academy of Sciences they had no idea what they would find.
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