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