Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean.
SYLVIA EARLESome experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.
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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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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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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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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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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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I’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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