Marine

Climate change is altering US marine ecosystems in unprecedented ways, leading to shifts in species’ location, productivity, and seasonal timing. This poses risks to fisheries, tourism, recreation, transportation, energy, and other economic sectors—and also undermines critical connections between people and the ocean, especially within Indigenous communities.

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Scene from a survey dive near Catalina Island, just off the southern California coast. Photograph by Adam Obaza, NOAA Fisheries, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ via Flickr