Edit:
Tried reading paper. Still not sure. It looks like you picked an equation that divides the scores into 6 sections. the top one being 15-90 and the rest much smaller ranges. i don't understand why that division maps to "high impact" etc terms, nor still precisely what that is supposed to mean. but there's a footnote:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5865/948?ijke...
17. Materials and methods are available as supporting material on Science Online.
in those materials, i find a chart saying the top section means > 90% degraded ocean. so ... does that mean 90% of the water there has turned to sludge? 90% of the animals are dead? something like that? if so, that's plenty easy to understand and could be made more prominent.