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An eroding coast on the southern shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama. As the shoreline recedes, trees collapse, blocking access to the sandy beach by marine life. Credit: NASA/University of Alabama in Huntsville/Maury Estes Earth observations like those from NASA satellites are critical to understanding the threats of climate change to Earth’s ocean, according to a recent article in Oceanography led by the Ecological Forecasting program area. The article, titled  Integrating Biology into Ocean Observing Infrastructure: Society Depends on It , is featured in a special observing supplement to the journal. Humanity’s dependence on the ocean affects every sector of life: trade and tourism, pharmaceuticals, research, energy, and more. The study authors noted that the value of this “blue economy” totals roughly $2 trillion every year, and while over 90% of Earth’s habitable space is contained in the sea, the habitats within it are rapidly changing. Sea surface temperatures have risen about 0.11 deg

  The Citizens’ concerns in 1976 regarding road traffic crashes where well over 40,881 crashes were recorded in the year alone, at a period vehicular movement was at its lowest, Professor Wole Soyinka (founder of the Federal Road Safety Corps) was moved to describe the conditions of Nigerian roads as a ‘slaughter slab’ in one of his documentaries. This record, in 1988, challenged him and a few well meaning Nigerian Citizens to take a solid stand targeted at liberating their fatherland from the shackles of Road Traffic crashes. The Professor went on to become the first Chairman of the Federal Road Safety Commission when it was established, under the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, the Military Head of State of the Country. Having successfully introduced and implemented actionable plans and programmes to reduce crashes over the years from the humongous figures of 1976 under the supervision of different Corps Marshals over time, the FRSC represented Nigeria’s interest in the United N