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We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing its chemistry.

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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
Biologist
Botanist
Explorer
Marine Biologist
Oceanographer
Gibbstown
New Jersey
Sylvia Alice Earle
S.A.Earle
Planets
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Whole
Warming
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