Census shows connectedness of world’s marine life

[G_j]

remember this, the next time someone says, "don't worry, it's a big ocean".

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/census-shows-connectedness-worlds-marine-life/

Census shows connectedness of world’s marine life


By The Associated Press
Monday, October 4th, 2010 -- 9:27 am

It's a small watery world after all: Marine animal census shows how interconnected sea life is

The world's oceans may be vast and deep, but a decade-long count of marine animals finds sea life so interconnected that it seems to shrink the watery world.

An international effort to create a Census of Marine Life was completed Monday with maps and three books, increasing the number of counted and validated species to 201,206.

A decade ago the question of how many species are out there couldn't be answered. It also could have led to a lot of arguments among scientists. Some species were counted several or even dozens of times, said Jesse Ausubel of the Alfred Sloan Foundation, the co-founder of the effort that involved 2,700 scientists.


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2. the solution to pollution...

is not fucking putting it there in the first fucking place.

[G_j]

3. yep

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