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February 15, 2008

New Global Map of Ocean Impacts


The first-ever comprehensive map of our planet's marine environment shows that human activity has heavily affected 41 percent of the world's ocean-covered area, with no area left completely untouched.

"This new picture of ocean warming reveals a far greater degree of local ... variation in temperature anomalies than previously recognized or even anticipated," said John Bruno, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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