As climate change, fishing and other human activities threaten marine ecosystems, scientists predict which areas are most at-risk to better inform decision makers.
By Teresa Tomassoni
By 2050, the combined impacts of climate change and human activity on the ocean could be two to three times greater than they are today. Without urgent efforts to reduce these threats, a new study from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis—an independent research affiliate of the University of California, Santa Barbara—warns those forces could completely transform, or even wipe out, entire seascapes.
By Teresa Tomassoni
By 2050, the combined impacts of climate change and human activity on the ocean could be two to three times greater than they are today. Without urgent efforts to reduce these threats, a new study from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis—an independent research affiliate of the University of California, Santa Barbara—warns those forces could completely transform, or even wipe out, entire seascapes.