Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
Sylvia EarleI have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
Sylvia EarleFor humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
Sylvia EarleThe ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.
Sylvia EarleFish from all over the world, from deep in the sea, wind up in countries from Germany to Japan. That is just crazy.
Sylvia EarleOcean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
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