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Marine biodiversity: life in seas under threat

News Published 17 Mar 2010 Last modified 21 Jun 2016

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Photo: © Pawel Kazmierczyk/EEA

Climate change, pollution, acidification, over-exploitation of fish stocks, invasive alien species all threaten life in our seas and consequently the services we obtain from them. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) new short assessment of marine biodiversity takes a closer look at the ‘less known half’ of EU territory.