Sunday, May 25, 2014

podcast story: Oceanic @ The Long Now

Sylvia Earle, Tierney Thys: Oceanic - The Long Now
"Two-thirds of global fisheries are overfished. Eating a tuna, Earle points out, is like eating a wolf or a tiger. It is a magnificent predator often decades in age. We no longer commercially harvest wildlife on land. Why do we do it in the sea?
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A sea-going photosynthetic bacteria named prochlorococcus was identified as recently as 1986, yet it may be the most abundant species on Earth, responsible for half of all the oxygen in the atmosphere"

Oceans significantly getting more acidic, due to increased CO2 dissolved in water, affecting ecological balance... 



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