About Anything » oceans http://www.alstevens.org The personal blog of Al Stevens. Focus is overrated. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:17:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Human Impact to the World’s Oceans http://www.alstevens.org/2008/02/18/human-impact-to-the-worlds-oceans/ http://www.alstevens.org/2008/02/18/human-impact-to-the-worlds-oceans/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:15:21 +0000 Al Stevens http://www.alstevens.org/2008/02/18/human-impact-to-the-worlds-oceans/ Google Earth view of upper US AtlanticFor a really “big picture” view of how we are impacting the our planet’s oceans, download the KML file from UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis: www.nceas.ucsb.edu/GlobalMarine

Load it into Google Earth and circle the planet. The data is the result of a study that concludes “over 40% of the world’s oceans are heavily affected by human activities and few if any areas remain untouched”. Our ecological footprint is not only large, it’s also very wet.

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