Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
SYLVIA EARLEThe Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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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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It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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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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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
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