Eight Urgent Steps for Our Ocean Planet

A scientific paper published in May 2019 states that eight urgent, simultaneous actions are needed to head off potential ecological disaster in the global ocean. The International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) report warns that failure to act within the next ten years to halt the damage caused by human activities could result in catastrophic change…

World Ocean Observatory
Nov 6 · 4 min read

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