31 October 2016:
The International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO), SCAR Union Member International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), and SCAR partner the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) –three groups of the International Council for Science (ICSU)–prepared input for the G7, which is available at http://www.icsu.org/news-centre/news/pdf/Report%20to%20G7%20SMins%20on%20FOSs.pdf.
Topics in the report include:
- Cross-cutting issues
- Plastic pollution of the marine environment
- Deep-sea mining and its ecosystem impacts
- Ocean acidification
- De-oxygenation
- Ocean warming
- Biodiversity loss
- Marine ecosystem degradation