At the dawn of the millennium, a group of eminent scientists began compiling a list of the threats they felt were most likely to impact the world’s rocky shorelines over the coming quarter of a century.
At the dawn of the millennium, a group of eminent scientists began compiling a list of the threats they felt were most likely to impact the world’s rocky shorelines over the coming quarter of a century.
Published in 2002, it included forecasts that – among other things – pollution from oil spills would decrease, the number of invasive species across the world would rise, genetically-modified organisms would have harmful effects on the ocean, and the impacts of global climate change would be felt more intensely.
Now, 25 years on, the same academics – along with a larger and more wide-ranging team of international experts – have revisited their forecasts and discovered that many of them were correct, either in whole or in part, while others haven’t had the impacts that were envisaged at the time.
Read more at: University of Plymouth
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