October 2

Life below water

The oceans cover more than 70 per cent of the surface of our planet and play a key role in supporting life on earth. They are the most diverse and important ecosystem, contributing to global and regional elemental cycling, and regulating the climate. The ocean provides natural resources including food, materials, substances, and energy.

14. Life below water - Sustainable development indicators - Eurostat
Marine Protected Areas contribute to poverty reduction by increasing fish catches and income, creating new jobs, improving health, and empowering women. Increasing levels of debris in the world’s seas and oceans is having a major and growing economic impact.

Could Intelligent Life Evolve Underwater? | by Brandon Weigel | Our Space |  Medium

The oceans make human life possible. Their temperature, their chemistry, their currents, their life forms. For one thing, more than 3 billion people depend on marine and coastal diversity for their livelihoods. But today we are seeing nearly a third of the world’s fish stocks overexploited. That’s not a sustainable way of life. Even people who live nowhere near the ocean can’t live without it.

ISO - Life Below Water Oceans absorb about 30 percent of the carbon dioxide that humans produce; but we’re producing more carbon dioxide than ever before and that makes the oceans more acidic—26% more, since the start of the industrial revolution. Our trash doesn’t help either—13,000 pieces of plastic litter on every square kilometer of ocean. Sounds bad, right?

THE OCEAN: LIFE BELOW WATER AND WHY IT MATTERS - National Maritime  FoundationDon’t despair! The Sustainable Development Goals indicate targets for managing and protecting life below water.


Posted October 2, 2022 by manukyantamara in category Անգլ․ նախագծեր, Անգլերեն

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