Research Source Log

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	Ocean's Are at Risk, Team of Scientists Warns.
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	Author: David Jolly. The New York Times.
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	The New York Times
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	Not given.
Date Page was Last Revised	21 June 2011
Date You Read It	31 January 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/oceans-are-at-dire-risk-team-of-scientists-warns/?scp=22&sq=ocean%20pollution&st=cse

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

Jolly writes that the oceans are "declining far more rapidly" than expected due to "the impact of stresses on the oceans, which include acidification related to growing carbon dioxide emissions."(David Jolly)

Scientists warn that if people don't change their harmful ways, the oceans are at risk for "an unparalleled rate of regional extinctions of habitat types."(David Jolly)

Due to the unexpected and shocking increase in ocean pollution, we "now face losing marine species and entire marine ecosystems." (David Jolly)

Chris Reid, a professor of oceanography at the Marine Institute of Plymouth University, was interviewed by Jolly and said that "corals were particularly at risk because they were suffering both from the bleaching effect caused by rising sea temperatures and from acidification, which deprive the tiny organisms of the calcium carbonate they need to build their homes." (David Jolly)

Jolly writes that these stresses on the ocean, including acidification, rising ocean temperatures, and overfishing, are not only causing species and habitats to decrease, but is also "reducing the polar ice caps."(David Jolly)