No Pristine Oceans Left, New Map Shows

18 02 2008

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A new study has mapped the effects of human behavior on the world’s oceans, finding that 40 percent of the area has been strongly affected and no regions remain untouched.

No Pristine Oceans Left, New Map Shows
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I guess this goes towards the comments on my last posting.  It isn’t easy to build a big fence around a marine environment and protect the bits on the inside.  Marine environments are complex inter-dependant ecosystems; anyone who’s owned a marine tank will testify to how hard it is to keep everything running happily.


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