Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048

10-01-2006

Daniel DeNoon

The apocalypse has a new date: 2048.

That's when the world's oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ecologists and economists. The cause: the disappearance of species due to overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, and climate change.

Relating: Energy, Water, Food and Climate Change

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“Perfect storm” Professor Sir John Beddington FRS UK Chief Scientific Adviser 2008 -2013

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Ocean acidification may cause dramatic changes to phytoplankton

07-19-2015

MIT News

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office

Oceans have absorbed up to 30 percent of human-made carbon dioxide around the world, storing dissolved carbon for hundreds of years. As the uptake of carbon dioxide has increased in the last century, so has the acidity of oceans worldwide.

Ma Jun: China has reached its environmental tipping point

05-18-2015

the Guardian

Tom Levitt

It was almost 20 years ago that Ma Jun sat and watched the rainbow-coloured River Fen, in Shanxi province. As he turned to the skies in this coal and industrial heartland of north China he could see dozens of chimneys bellowing out their fumes.

2016 Climate Trends Continue to Break Records

12-20-2016

<a href="http://www.nasa.gov">www.nasa.gov</a> - Patrick Lynch

Two key climate change indicators -- global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent -- have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data.

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