United Nations World Oceans Day 2024 will once again bring together high-level officials, UN Delegates, and global thought leaders for an in-person gathering at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Friday, June 7, 2024. UN WOD/Oceanic Global
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By Olivia Rosane and Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
Humans have explored less than 10 percent of the ocean’s depths, yet our actions influence it in profound and damaging ways: Our plastics have polluted its waters from coastal sea spray to the Mariana Trench; our burning of fossil fuels has ignited marine heat waves and bleached coral reefs.
To call our attention to all that the ocean does for us and all that we must…
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