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Nature 424, 603 (7 August 2003) | doi:10.1038/424603b

Ecological advice sparks sea change in judicial opinion

Rex Dalton

For any environmental scientist, it would be an opportunity to die for — to speak to the judges of one of the most powerful US courts about the ecological perils to the oceans.On 25 June, this dream became a reality for marine ecologists Jeremy Jackson and Nancy Knowlton from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California.