The Water Cycle

The water cycle is sustained in large part by the forests of the world. The rain forests bring the water inland. Deforestation creates an imbalance that effects everything from farm and grazing land to carbon emissions and rising sea levels.

Of all the ecosystems we rely upon it is perhaps the fisheries that are most obviously effected. Once again, it is the rapid advance of technology that has made for the depletion of our resources. It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that mass production reached the oceanic highways and over-fishing began to exceed sustainable capacity.

Refrigeration and improved methods of inland transport combine with this to bring about an imbalance that is unsupportable.

Celebs pose for calendar to build environmental awareness | Momento 24

… representing global warming, water pollution and air pollution, loss of forests and the advance of deserts, overfishing, the rise of the oceans, species extinction, excessive consumption, diseases and depletion of drinking water. …

Friends of Sebago Lake: Silica Depletion Bibliography

Global warming is upsetting natural currents and their volume with the result that the nutrients do not come in sufficient quantities from the polar regions resulting in depleted fishing. In tropical and subtropical places pollution on the land … Hence all over the world the lack of silica nutrients have upset the diatom food chain. The imbalance in the nutrients availability helps the growth of other species of algae that are not very helpful for the growth of finfish. …

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