Abstract
The world’s coastlines are threatened with contamination – and a sea of indifference, says a United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report on the state of the world’s oceans. ‘In 1989 man’s fingerprint is found everywhere in the oceans …’, is the dramatic opening to The State of the Marine Environment, a report by 20 scientists involving 8 United Nations organisations coordinated by UNEP. The study is the first scientific over-view of the world’s 360 million square kilometres of oceans in eight years.The report was sponsored by UNEP, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Maritime Organization, Unesco, the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization. Copies are available from UNEP, Oceans and Coastal Areas Programme Activity Centre, Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya.This article is reproduced courtesy of Our Planet, the quarterly magazine of the UNEP.
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