21 January, 2015

Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says - NYTimes.com

Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says - NYTimes.com:

A
team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds
of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing
unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them.
“We
may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,” said
Douglas J. McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, and an author of the new research, which was published on Thursday in the journal Science.