Marine Biodiversity in Dangerous Decline
Marine Biodiversity in Dangerous Decline, Finds New Report - NRDC
Over one-third of marine mammals and nearly one-third of sharks, shark relatives, and reef-forming corals are threatened with extinction, ...
The decline of marine biodiversity - Ocean & Climate Platform
The loss of marine biodiversity is weakening the ocean ecosystem and its ability to withstand disturbances, to adapt to climate change.
Habitat and Biodiversity Loss (Threats 2021 ed.) - Our Shared Seas
Marine habitats and biodiversity are declining faster than at any other time in human history. While biodiversity and habitat decline can seem like a niche ...
Coastal and marine biodiversity loss | IAEA
Coastal and marine environments can be tremendously biodiverse. Human activities, pollution, land use and development along coastlines, however, can put stress ...
Oceanic shark and ray species have declined by 71% since the 1970s, with overfishing the primary cause of the decline. Bycatch is one of the leading threats to ...
Marine Biodiversity | Ocean Impact
The Earth's biodiversity is declining at a faster rate than at any other time in human history, and it's one of the biggest threats facing our future. If the ...
Marine biodiversity loss ... Further use of existing technologies and industry innovation, can substantially reduce the threats to endangered species.
Oceans in danger: the threats they face - UNRIC.org
Combined with the impacts of overfishing, pollution, and habitat destruction, this is leading to marine biodiversity loss. Pollution. Today, ...
Ocean Biodiversity - Earthjustice
Our planet's biodiversity crisis now threatens two of every five species with extinction, and the loss of ocean biodiversity is especially dangerous.
Human activity devastating marine species from mammals to corals
The most urgent threat is Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, which has emerged in the past four years and is highly contagious, infecting ...
Media Release: Nature's Dangerous Decline 'Unprecedented' - IPBES
Three-quarters of the land-based environment and about 66% of the marine environment have been significantly altered by human actions. On ...
Concern about the human health implications of marine biodiversity ...
Marine species loss is an issue of major environmental importance and has been described as a planetary boundary (Rockström et al., 2009; ...
Climate change-accelerated ocean biodiversity loss & associated ...
These systems are now under significant threat in the Anthropocene epoch [82], and in some cases are leading to accelerated species extinction [137,158] and ...
Threats on Marine Biodiversity - Ocean52
Each of these different threats (overfishing, ecosystem loss, climate change, pollution and invasive species) has its specificities that require ...
Saving Marine Biodiversity - Issues in Science and Technology
More and more, the harm to marine biodiversity can be traced not to natural events but to inadequate policies. The escalating loss of marine life is bad enough ...
Threats facing our oceans: Marine - Department of Conservation
About 22% of marine mammals and 90% of seabirds are at risk of extinction. This is in part because many of the habitats they depend on are decreasing in size or ...
Accelerating Loss of Ocean Species Threatens Human Well-Being
An international group of ecologists and economists has shown that the loss of biodiversity is profoundly reducing the ocean's ability to produce seafood.
UN Report: Nature's Dangerous Decline 'Unprecedented'; Species ...
Three-quarters of the land-based environment and about 66% of the marine environment have been significantly altered by human actions. On ...
A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal ...
The biodiversity of marine and coastal habitats is experiencing unprecedented change. While there are well-known drivers of these changes, ...
Nature's Dangerous Decline 'Unprecedented' Species Extinction ...
The average abundance of native species in most major land-based habitats has fallen by at least 20%, mostly since 1900. More than 40% of ...