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Climate changes and their implications for marine ecosystem

We live in an age marked by almost daily natural disasters. Moreover, they have become so common to us all less surprising. However, it always strikes us the suffering of innocent people. People are trying to answer the eternal question of the source of suffering coming as a rule to the wrong answer. Fatalism and inevitability of these events relieve us of responsibility and excludes own effort to look at the causal relationship of these phenomena. The aquatic environment on which it depends may have potentially important but as yet poorly defined roles in the management and mitigation of greenhouse gas emission. Understanding the role of oceans as major carbon sinks in influencing climate, food security and economic development of coastal states is crucial. Air, sea water temperature, rainfall, sea level, wind patterns and water dynamisms including tropical cyclones are all affected due to the climate changes. The change in weather patterns will affect the coastal and marine environment but also safety and security of people, their homes and their means of life. Climate change is also creating huge challenges for food security that is increasingly recognized as a major local, national and international priority. It is likely to affect fisheries and aquaculture productivity as well as their dependent communities through both direct physical and/or indirect wider socio-economic effects.

climate changes; natural disasters; marine ecosystem; food security

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