The director said deep sea research is 'shamefully underfunded' and called for a 'global fleet of swarm robotics' to study Earth's oceans.
Earlier this year, the World Health Organizationinto the health and environmental impacts of microplastics. Initial research appears to indicate that ingesting it—either directly or indirectly—could cause inflammation that may lead to disease. Plastics can also release toxic substances into the water, which may end up impacting population sizes by reducing fertility.
As a result, understanding the role they have on global systems is becoming more and more important. Ocean currents are known greatly affect the weather. Colder sea surface temperatures in the Pacific, for example, have the potential to cause. Climate change is also expected to bring more severe hurricanes over the coming decades, along with huge changes to ocean systems.
Earth from space. The ocean makes up over two-thirds of the planet, yet we've only explored about 5 percent of it.Earth's oceans make up two-thirds of the planet, yet only about 5 percent has been explored. For this reason, Cameron is calling for a push in ocean research—an area of science he says is"insanely underfunded."
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