Just how .......d are the world's oceans? I've put the dots in that sentence so you can insert the word of your choice.
According to a high-level seminar of experts in Oxford earlier this week, there's one word starting with the letter S that would fit quite well, a longer option beginning Kn - and a few more that are even stronger in meaning.
The S option, by the way, is not "secured".
Scientists are famous for staying in silos and never peering over the edge at what's going on in the world around them.
What marked this week's event - convened by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean - as something a bit different was the melange of expertise in the same room.
Fisheries experts traded studies with people studying ocean acidification; climate modellers swapped data with ecologists; legal wonks formulated phrases alongside toxicologists.
They debated, discussed, queried, swapped questions and answers. Pretty much everyone said they'd learned something new - and something a bit scary. (read more)
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