Ocean water pollution is at an all time high today. The world’s oceans are depleting and getting increasing polluted due to the increase of greenhouse gases, destruction of marine ecosystems and the break in the food chain – irreversible changes have occurred since several million years, according to a new study. The changes could mean ruin for hundreds of millions of people around the world who depend on the oceans for their livelihood
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“It’s like the earth has been smoking two packs of cigarettes a day,” says the report’s lead-author Australian marine scientist Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg citing that ocean water pollution cannot be ignored.

The report published in Science Magazine on Friday, studied 10 years of marine research and found that climate change is causing heavy casualties on ecosystems. Oceans are were quickly heating up and getting acidified, water flow has been altered and dead zones in the deep ocean are expanding, the report said.

Ocean water pollution has triggered because major ocean ecosystems like kelp forests and coral reefs and the marine food chain was depleting, with fewer and smaller fish and more frequent diseases and pests among marine organisms.“If we continue down this pathway we get into conditions which have no analog to anything we’ve experienced,” said Hoegh-Guldberg, director of the Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland.

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by admin on 20. Jun, 2010 in Health News