{"id":4602,"date":"2015-01-18T08:52:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2015-01-18T08:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T13:52:06","slug":"ocean-life-faces-mass-extinction-broad-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4602","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says<\/a><\/h3>\n

A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,\u201d said Douglas J. McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an author of the new research, which was\u00a0published on Thursday in the journal Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But there is still time to avert catastrophe, Dr. McCauley and his colleagues also found. Compared with the continents, the oceans are mostly intact, still wild enough to bounce back to ecological health.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re lucky in many ways,\u201d said Malin L. Pinsky, a marine biologist at Rutgers University and another author of the new report. \u201cThe impacts are accelerating, but they\u2019re not so bad we can\u2019t reverse them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scientific assessments of the oceans\u2019 health are dogged by uncertainty: It\u2019s much harder for researchers to judge the well-being of a species living underwater, over thousands of miles, than to track the health of a species on land. And changes that scientists observe in particular ocean ecosystems may not reflect trends across the planet.<\/p>\n

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Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them. \u201cWe may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[287,2716,2715,2717,2714],"class_list":["post-4602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-extinction","tag-major-extinction-event","tag-mass-extinction","tag-ocean-health","tag-ocean-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}