The marine world is still relatively unknown to us due to
many different factors such as it’s size, depth and general conditions (eg
pressure) exploration has never been an easy task, because of this there is generally a near
constant stream of new discoveries to do with the oceans and that is what part of this
weekly article will be about.
The first article which has recently come out is the
culmination of a 20 year study in Hawaii and has found that the algae meadows
found among the mesophotic coral zone which can range from 30-150m in depth
have the highest species diversity known within any marine environment. The
study also found that half the fish species below the depth of 70m are endemic
to areas surrounding Hawaii and with further research they found in the
north-western waters 100% of the fish species were solely found in Hawaii at
those depths. The results of this new study are extremely important in terms of
conservation as now the extent of species diversity is known within these
waters, hopefully they’ll be a greater effort in an attempt to keep them as
natural as possible.
Sadly from the good news to terrible, recently the
global CO2 level has passed 400ppm (parts per million) for a whole month. Now
this is a big step up as I’m sure if you look at a lot of school text books you’ll
see this figure quoted as 380ppm so this new figure is a large increase which
is nothing but bad news in my eyes and will have many unknown implications.
Thanks for reading!
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