Oceans Are Losing Oxygen—and Becoming More Hostile to Life
"The discovery of this behavioral quirk in fish built for diving offers some of the most tangible evidence of a disturbing trend: Warming temperatures are sucking oxygen out of waters even far out at sea, making enormous stretches of deep ocean hostile to marine life.
‘Two hundred meters down, there is a freight train of low-oxygen water barreling toward the surface,’ says William Gilly, a marine biologist with Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, in Pacific Grove, California. Yet, ‘with all the ballyhoo about ocean issues, this one hasn’t gotten much attention.’"
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