Marine Pollution: The poisoning of the seas

Covering 71% of the earth's surface, the oceans contain a huge variety of life-forms, many of them valuable to humanity for food, medicine or industrial processes. This biological diversity is threatened by an accumulation of damage from overfishing, pollution and coastal development. How serious is the threat to the marine realm? What is being done to protect it?

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