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So much for that pristine wilderness of Nantucket Sound

No Pristine Oceans Left, New Map Shows

Every area of the oceans is feeling the effects of fishing, pollution, or human-caused global warming, the study says, and some regions are being affected by all of these factors and more.  A team led by Ben Halpern of the University of California, Santa Barbara, created the first global map (on right) that shows the various kinds of damage being done to marine ecosystems... 

The second biggest factor ocean-killing factor is...  FISHING

The second biggest factor affecting marine life is fishing, they add.  Trawl-fishing for animals on the ocean floor, such as groundfish and shrimp, is especially damaging because the rest of the seafloor habitat is destroyed in the process, Halpern says.

The habitats that are suffering the worst impacts, rated "very high" in the study, are continental shelves, the shallow areas off the coasts of continents that are 200 to 750 feet (60 to 200 meters) deep.

Other areas with very high impacts include the northeastern U.S., where pollution, commercial shipping, and fishing are the major causes of harm...  National Geographic. For further information on local problems and their possible solitions, see Clean Power Now. 

Meanwhile, the US Department of the Interior is arresting Polars Bears

The United States  Department of the Interior gets tough on Greenpeace protesters
Bureaucrats couldn't bear the sight of a large Arctic refugee cavorting in their DC pool as 1/5 of America's remaining polar bears are threatened... 

While the Department of Interior is dragging their feet on protecting polar bears, they are moving full steam ahead on plans to drill for oil in prime polar bear habitat. New oil leases are opening up in the Chukchi Sea and oil companies are lining up quickly to obtain licenses to drill. A fifth of the remaining Arctic polar bears depend on Chukchi Sea ice in their hunt for food...  See our story here.