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...
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: March 20, 2018 SNIP: A marine heatwave in Western Australia in 2010 set off a massive “carbon bomb”, damaging the world’s largest seagrass meadow, releasing millions of tonnes of carbon that had been collected for thousands of years below...
SOURCE: Independent DATE: Aug 9, 2017 SNIP: The ocean is slowly being suffocated with levels of oxygen falling at a similar rate to 94 million years ago when there was a mass extinction of marine life, scientists have warned. While that event was caused naturally,...
SOURCE: National Geographic DATE: July 25, 2017 SNIP: Yet another floating mass of microscopic plastic has been discovered in the ocean, and it is mind-blowingly vast. A new discovery of a massive amount of plastic floating in the South Pacific is yet another piece of...
SOURCE: Think Progress DATE: May 8, 2017 SNIP: Depletion of dissolved oxygen in our oceans, which can cause dead zones, is occurring much faster than expected, a new study finds. And by combining oxygen loss with ever-worsening ocean warming and acidification, humans...
