<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">More than 100 aquatic-science societies sound
climate alarm</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none">Scott A. Bonar</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.7pt">19 JANUARY 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00107-x" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00107-x</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prompted by the urgency of the situation, 111 aquatic-science societies —
representing more than 80,000 scientists from 7 continents — have issued a
statement on how anthropogenic climate change is affecting marine and
freshwater ecosystems, with a plea to avoid their further degradation and to
speed mitigation (see </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://go.nature.com/2lq9zma" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(0,102,153);text-decoration-line:none">go.nature.com/2lq9zma</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This year is crucial: the United Nations Climate Change Conference in
November is widely considered the last chance to unify action; the United
States has elected a presidential administration on the country’s most
ambitious climate platform; the European Green Deal is under way; and pledges
to reach net-zero emissions from China, Japan and South Korea are nearing the
targets set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 21pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Recovery from the COVID‑19 pandemic should help to focus efforts to curb
trends such as melting of ice sheets, ocean warming and acidification, and
changes in precipitation patterns and freshwater flow, as well as to alleviate
their impacts (see </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://go.nature.com/3sndjyu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(0,102,153);text-decoration-line:none">go.nature.com/3sndjyu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">These societies
call on world leaders and the public to act now to protect and sustain global
aquatic ecosystems and their services, on which we all depend. Time is running
out to control emissions, improve adaptation measures and reduce other
environmental stressors that act synergistically with climate change.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.75pt">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 11.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nature.com/magazine-assets/d41586-021-00107-x/18775358" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(0,102,153);text-decoration-line:none">List of
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