Rising temperatures mean oceans will have less oxygen, and this, along with more heatwaves and increased acidification, will make fish move further away from the coast and create larger deadzones, where life cannot survive, a new UN report says
Since the 1970s, the climate crisis has made our oceans warmer and more acidic, reducing the number of fish we rely on for our food and putting the future of fish in peril, according to a major UN report out Wednesday.
Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100Rising temperatures mean oceans will have less oxygen, and this, along with more heatwaves and increased acidification, will make fish move further away from the coast and create larger deadzones, where life cannot survive. Ultimately, the report said, this will lead to the extinction of some species of fish, which Americans have been eating an increasing amount of recent years.
Pinsky said he hopes that people will read this report and realize that we are at this"key tipping point in history." It is a time, he said,"where we have, as individuals and as a country, enormous control over what future we pick.""If we are headlined for a future with clean energy and clean transportation and less carbon dioxide emissions, we don't need to be heading into a scary future," Pinsky said."We can act and adapt.
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