Yale Environment 360: Last month, a group of marine experts -- including lead author Douglas McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara -- published a groundbreaking study in the journal Science that delivered a sobering message: The worlds oceans are on the verge of major change that could cause irreparable damage to marine life.
Poring through a host of records and data sets, ranging from ancient fossil records to present-day catch statistics, the scientists drew conclusions that were...