Issues

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Bleached coral underwater in acidic ocean water
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Global Oceans

Ocean Acidification

The ocean is absorbing our carbon — and paying the price.

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Illustration of a passenger pigeon, now extinct
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Global

Species Extinction

We are living through the sixth mass extinction. This one is us.

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A farm water well on dry cracked earth
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Global Groundwater Systems

Aquifer Depletion

We are drinking water that fell as rain ten thousand years ago.

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Microplastic particles visible in water
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Global — Every Ocean, Every Body

Microplastics

Plastic is now inside us. All of us.

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A North Atlantic right whale surfacing in the ocean
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Global Oceans

Ocean Noise Pollution

The ocean is getting louder. The whales are going deaf.

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