Living Waters: Emphasising the need to protect life's breath on this planet

A virus has caused us to scramble for oxygen but our chokehold on the environment is slowly strangling the very waters that breathe life into us. The virus is a timely reminder: We are merely consumers, not producers of life's breath on this planet
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
Published: May 29, 2021
China Emissions

Image by : Kevin Frayer / Getty Images

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  • Living Waters: Emphasising the need to protect life's breath on this planet
  • Reef Marine Park
  • Sea Lion
  • Ocean warming
  • Industrial Pollution
  • China Emissions
  • Dead fish Brazil
  • Fishfarm in China
  • Ganga

Smoke billows from a large steel plant in Inner Mongolia, China
Oceans are becoming more acidic as a result of absorbing excess carbon dioxide gas released in the atmosphere by human activity. Fossil fuel emissions and deforestation are the two major sources for carbon pollution. The rapid destruction of warm water coral reefs is evidence that ocean acidification will affect marine life. Reef ecosystems have served as ‘cradles of evolution’ throughout Earth’s biological history. More marine species have originated in reef ecosystems than in any other.