By CHRISTINA CARON (@cdcaron)
Marine experts are now prophesying a perfect storm: a world where marine species could undergo unprecedented levels of extinction.
"The speed of change, particularly related to climate change is so great there simply isn't time for marine life to adapt to these new conditions," said Alex Rogers, a professor of conservation biology at the University of Oxford. "When we've seen mass extinctions in the past they've been associated with large disturbances in the carbon system of the oceans. That's what we're bringing about through our own actions today."
Earlier this year Rogers and 26 other researchers from six countries met for a three-day workshop in England to examine ocean stressors, such as overfishing. This week the panel of marine experts released a summary report from Oxford University -- and the full report is on the way. Their findings? A disturbing decline in the health of the ocean that is on track to get much worse.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/marine-species-face-mass-extinction-report/story?id=13893627
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