Euronews
April 1, 2020
Scientists estimate that roughly one million land and marine species may become extinct in the foreseeable future. Many within decades.
What are the main reasons for the decline of underwater ecosystems?
Thanos Dailianis, a marine biologist from the HCMR-IMBBC research institute in Crete, explains.
“Marine ecosystems are threatened both locally and globally. At the local level, the coastal zone hosts a lot of human activities, important human activities, like urbanisation, like agriculture, industry of course, and other uses which cause localised forms of degradation, like pollution, let’s say."
"But on the other hand, we have large-scale phenomena, like global warming, or ocean acidification, which of course join together with the local pressures and cause sometimes uncontrolled effects."