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Article: DEAD SEAS lament; (1) The oceans have sustained mankind since the dawn of time. Now, vast areas are utterly devoid of life. Who is to blame...and is there a way back? (2) SATURDAY ESSAY.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 3, 2004
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Byline: BRUCE SANDISON
MY footprints marked the sand as I walked the shore by the dead sea.
Fingers of the tide splashed my feet with brownflecked foam. A soft wind whispered of spring's coming but no birds sang.
A single herring gull wheeled endlessly overhead, searching for food. On towering cliffs that were once alive with the cry of fulmar, kittiwake and gannet, the seabird colonies were deserted. The bewhiskered seals that used to watch my progress through dark, sorrowful eyes had gone. I felt as though part of me had died.
The prospect of our seas becoming devoid of life is not the stuff of science fiction. It is scientific fact. ...