The oceans are so big that it’s hard to imagine them being ruined. But anyone following the subject has run into dead zones and dying coral and over-fishing and garbage in the Pacific to where it seems the oceans are afflicted with a multitude of problems.

Threats from so many directions can make it hard to see the big picture, but this article from the Boston Phoenix does a good job of doing just that. It’s mostly bad news tempered with the possibility that we can still do something to help out. Recommended for anyone with an interest in the planets’s, and our, future.