Washington Post reports on new
findings about oxygen levels in the ocean:
“A large research
synthesis, published in one of the world’s most influential scientific
journals, has detected a decline in the amount of dissolved oxygen in oceans
around the world — a long-predicted result of climate change that could have
severe consequences for marine organisms if it continues.
The paper,
published Wednesday in the journal Nature by oceanographer Sunke Schmidtko and
two colleagues from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel,
Germany, found a decline of more than 2 percent in ocean oxygen content
worldwide between 1960 and 2010. The loss, however, showed up in some ocean
basins more than others. The largest overall volume of oxygen was lost in the
largest ocean — the Pacific — but as a percentage, the decline was sharpest in
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