Tag: Deoxygenation
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Warming Oceans Are Losing Oxygen at Breathtaking Rates, Threatening Mass Extinction of Marine Life, Scientists Warn
Zero-oxygen “dead zones,” where marine life cannot survive, have quadrupled in size since 1950, new study finds Global warming and agricultural pollution have drastically reduced oxygen levels in the ocean over the last 70 years. Coastal dead zones with zero oxygen have quadrupled in size since 1950, while the number of very low oxygen sites have…