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Oceans of Life
In October 1995, National Public Radio and the National Geographic Society presented a Radio Expeditions stereo broadcast special, "Oceans of Life," the first of a two-part series exploring threats to biodiversity. Today, some 4.6 billion years after Earth was born, there is an abundance of life on this planet that we have barely begun to know. We do think we understand that the fates of many living things are joined. That's the essence of what scientists call biodiversity: the variety of life, the species, their habitats, ecosystems and genetic diversity. Today, they worry that life is being changed, extinguished and erased in a way that has never happened before. Only this time, it's not the scenario of a death-to-the-dinosaurs comet, or a climate- killing volcano that's causing the destruction...it's us.
"Undersea sounds from a palette rich in the
exotic, surprising, and the frightening help us tell our story of
biodiversity in the oceans. Some shout with urgency or promise;
others may be final whimpers on the edge of oblivion."
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