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WARMER SEAS, OVER-FISHING SPELL DISASTER FOR OCEANS: SCIENTISTS
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Rachel's Democracy & Health News
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April 24, 2008
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HANOI (AFP) - The future food security of millions of people is at risk because over-fishing, climate change and pollution are inflicting massive damage on the world's oceans, marine scientists warned this week.
The two-thirds of the planet covered by seas provide one fifth of the world's protein - but 75 percent of fish stocks are now fully exploited or depleted, a Hanoi conference that ended Friday was told.
Warming seas are bleaching corals, feeding algal blooms and changing ocean currents that impact the weather, and rising sea levels could in future threaten coastal areas from Bangladesh to New York, experts said.
"People think the ocean is a place apart," said Peter Neill, head of the ...
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366 words
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Anaclet Rwegayura;
787 words
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257 words
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299 words
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770 words
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