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Scorecard for the seas

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An index assessing the health of the oceans gives a global score of 60 out of 100. But the idea that a single number can encompass both environmental status and the benefits that the oceans provide for humans may prove controversial. See Article p.615

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Figure 1: The ocean's bounty.

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  1. Derek P. Tittensor is at the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK; the Microsoft Research Computational Science Laboratory, Cambridge; and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.,

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Tittensor, D. Scorecard for the seas. Nature 488, 594–595 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/488594a

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