UN urges urgent action on oceans

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Conservationists say urgent action is needed to save the world's oceans from increasing threats from human exploitation.

The United Nations Environment Program blames overfishing, pollution, climate change and shipping.

Its report says populations of large fish have declined by as much as 90 per cent in the last century.

It says there are more than 46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean.

Program director Achim Steiner says the full scale of the problem may not yet be fully understood.

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Why do I get the feeling the whole planet is deteriorating???

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1. You need to catch PBS Nova "Dimming Sun"

That will really scare the willies out of you.