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Humans’ construction ‘footprint’ on ocean quantified – Mirage News
Thirty thousand square kilometres of our ocean has been developed, a new study led by the University of Sydney has found. Development is predicted to…
In a world-first, the extent of human development in oceans has been mapped. An area totalling approximately 30,000 square kilometres – the equivalent of 0.008 percent of the ocean – has been modified by human construction, a study led by Dr Ana Bugnot from the University of Sydney School of Life and Environmental Sciences and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science has found.
The extent of ocean modified by human construction is, proportion-wise, comparable to the extent of urbanised land, and …
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