LIFE ON EARTH BEGINS IN OUR OCEAN
The ocean is the largest habitat for living things in our solar system. Almost certainly it was the ancient cauldron where life developed from complex chemistry, and today it is home to the greatest diversity of major plant, animal, and microbial groups on Earth.
Biological productivity of the oceans plays a vital role in the global climate and carbon cycle, and provides nearly 50 percent of Earth's oxygen and 20 percent of the world's protein supply.
But at the beginning of the 21st century, we realize that the ocean is at once overexploited and underexplored.
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