Thứ Ba, 29 tháng 11, 2011

Northern Line Islands Expedition

Photo: Large coral colony at Kingman Reef


Northern Line Islands
In 2010 and 2011, Dr. Enric Sala and a team of scientists traveled to the northern Line Islands in the North Pacific. There, the crew discovered a marine world that science never knew existed—one that hadn't yet been explored and damaged by humans, with an ecosystem little changed from its condition hundreds of years ago.
"We started at an island with 10,000 people and very degraded marine life," Sala explains. "We continued to an island with 2,500 people, then to one with ten people, and finally to one with zero people and a virtually intact ecosystem. It was a trip back in time, from degraded to pristine."

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