Baltimore Sun: In one of the most comprehensive looks yet at the oceans, researchers say that humans have "strongly" fouled 41 percent of the high seas with everything from storm water runoff to shipping waste and that only small polar regions are still untouched. "Almost half of the oceans are in a fairly degraded state, based on what we found," said Benjamin Halpern, the report’s lead author and a marine biologist at the California-based National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. …