January 23, 2015

Humans Have Brought World's Oceans to Brink of 'Major Extinction Event'

Humans Have Brought World's Oceans to Brink of 'Major Extinction Event'

"The report, published Thursday in the journal Science, finds that habitat loss, mismanagement of oceanic resources, climate change, and the overall "footprint of human ocean use" have resulted in a phenomenon known as "defaunation"—a decline in animal species diversity and abundance."