Much of marine life threatened with extinction, warn scientists (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by Theresa , Tuesday, February 03, 2015, 16:23

Up to one quarter of all well-known marine species are today threatened with extinction, scientists at the University of Sheffield in England have warned. This is the same figure as for land-based plants and animals, they say.

The number of species facing extinction in our seas is growing, and academics are not taking the problem as seriously as the threat to plants and animals that live on land, they say.

The destruction of habitats like coral reefs, overfishing, climate change and pollution are harming our seas, the scientists wrote in the academic journal Current Biology.

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