The Los Angeles Times’ five-part series, Altered Oceans, examined a profound disturbance in the ecology of the seas. The articles by Kenneth R. Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling showed how man-made stresses are not merely sullying the Earth's oceans, but altering their basic composition and chemistry.
Sunshine Menezes, Ph.D., Prize Administrator and Executive Director, Metcalf Institute
Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting
University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography
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