Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
SYLVIA EARLEGreen’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean.
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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
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We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
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Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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Protecting vital sources of renewal – unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens – will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.
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