Ocean Pollution & its Impact on Coral Reefs

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"Ocean Pollution and Its Impact on Coral Reefs
Introduction
Humans now dominate most of the earth's ecosystems, both land and water. Between one-third and one-half of the land surface has been modified by human activity and the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has increased by nearly 30 percent since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (Vitousek et al., 1997). Species have been driven to extinction, particularly birds. At the present, scientists are even beginning to believe that human action might extinguish some marine species that spend their whole lives in the ocean (Malakoff, 1997). Multiple assaults on the ocean affect everything from fish to coral reefs. The intention in this analysis is to explore how ocean pollution affects coral reefs..."

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