Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Human health and well-being, even the health of people who live far from the sea, depend on the health of the ocean. The ocean holds 97% of the world’s water and generates more than half of atmospheric oxygen. It absorbs more than 90% of excess heat released and nearly one-third of carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and thus slows climate change.1 It is the principal source of food and nutrition for 40% of the world’s population, including 2 billion children. It is the origin of multiple essential medicines. Interactions with the ocean, coasts and salt marshes—‘blue spaces’—benefit our physical and mental health, social development and spiritual well-being.
Source: BMJ Paediatrics Open
Institutions: Boston College, University of Exeter, Scientific Centre of Monaco
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404194447