Human-driven climate change has made the oceans hotter and more acidic, depleting them of oxygen and kneecapping their ability to produce life – a trend that will only continue if greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.
A comprehensive new report from the United Nations says that the entire marine food web and the fisheries that depend on it are threatened by climate change, and the only way to limit the severity of the disruption is by dramatically cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The costs and risks of delaying action are escalating.
The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released on 25 September and focused on the impacts of climate change on the oceans and the cryosphere – the frozen parts of the planet. In the report, more than 100 authors from 36 countries assessed the latest science on the ocean, climate change and the cryosphere, referencing roughly 7,000 scientific publications…
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