by faster | Dec 14, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Science Alert DATE: December 14, 2019 SNIP: Scientists call them ‘dead zones’: vast expanses of ocean water that contain little or no oxygen, making it almost impossible for many marine life-forms to survive within them. These giant ecological...
by faster | Dec 7, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: December 7, 2019 SNIP: Oxygen in the oceans is being lost at an unprecedented rate, with “dead zones” proliferating and hundreds more areas showing oxygen dangerously depleted, as a result of the climate emergency and intensive farming,...
by faster | Sep 13, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: IISD DATE: September 13, 2018 SNIP: According to UNESCO-IOC, oxygen has decreased by two percent in the world’s oceans over the past 50 years, and the volume of oxygen-depleted water has grown fourfold. The reasons for this deoxygenation include increasing...
by faster | May 10, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Climate News Network DATE: May 10, 2017 SNIP: US scientists who have been warning that warmer oceans are more likely to be poorer in dissolved oxygen have now sounded the alarm: ocean oxygen levels are indeed falling, and seemingly falling faster than the...
