6.8C Threats to Ocean Health & Implications for Humans

• Ocean Health and Impacts on Human Well-being:

  • Global warming is affecting ocean temperatures and currents as well as the supply of nutrients and marine food chains
  • These changes can be categorised under the following:
  • Bleaching
  • Acidification 
  • Rising sea levels
  • Loss of sea ice
• Ocean Health and Impacts on Human Well-being:

  • These changes then have an impact on distribution, abundance, breeding cycles and migration of marine plants and animals which millions of people depend on either directly or indirectly for food and income
  • Research suggests that marine organisms may be responding faster to climate change than terrestrial organisms