Climate change on track to reduce ocean wildlife by 17% 0 SHARES Share it! Even in a “best-case” scenario of limiting warming to 2C — the cornerstone target of the Paris climate treaty — the ocean’s biomass will drop off by five percent. Shallow-water corals, which harbour 30 percent of marine life, are forecast to disappear almost entirely under these conditions. Every additional degree will see the ocean biomass shrink by another five percent. “But now, the biggest impact is switching over to climate change, and that is playing out in the sea.”The number of damaging marine heatwave days has increased by more than half since the mid-20th century, according to a recent study in Nature Climate Change.

Source: Manila Bulletin June 12, 2019 18:00 UTC