Coastlines
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With 90% of the world’s urban areas on
coastlines
and at risk from rising sea levels, there is significant work to be done to protect the bulk of the world’s population from these and other climate-related threats.
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The Sargasso Sea, for example, is not a sea bounded by coastlines, but it is bounded by oceanic currents that contain and envelope this wealth of sargassum that grows and aggregates there.
From Tanzania to Timor-Leste, from India to Indonesia, we're seeing the same story unfold: that when we design it right, marine conservation reaps dividends that go far beyond protecting nature, improving catches and driving waves of social change along entire coastlines, strengthening confidence, cooperation and the resilience of communities to face the injustice of poverty and climate change.
Dense forests and tall mountains made overland travel difficult, but long
coastlines
and numerous rivers, lakes, and fjords provided a viable alternative.
Our tadpole-like ancestors flitted along ancient coastlines, while their eel-like relatives with gnashing throat teeth swam above the ice-cream cone corals of the first reefs, dodging school-bus-sized krakens and hungry sea scorpions.
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