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Today, Feb. 15, the AP reports data published in Science and released at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, showing that every part of every ocean has been affected by human activity in some way. Researchers studied 17 activities from fishing to pollution and found that the most affected areas are the North Sea, South and East China Seas, the Caribbean, the east coast of North America, the Mediterrranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Bering Sea and parts of the western Pacific. According to the lead author, Ben Halpern at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesies at UC - Santa Barbara, "the big picture looks much worse than I imagine most people expected."