Ocean Dead Zones Spread Due to Global Warming
In The Sunday Times UK, Jonathan Leake reports: "Marine dead zones, where fish and other sea life can suffocate from lack of oxygen, are spreading across the world's tropical oceans, a study has warned."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052008EA.shtml
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Scientists: Ocean dead zones on the rise at startling rate
San Francisco Chronicle
08/14/08
Dead zones where fish and most marine life can no longer survive are spreading across the continental shelves of the world’s oceans at an alarming rate as oxygen vanishes from coastal waters, scientists reported today. The scientists place the problem on runoff of chemical fertilizers in rivers and fallout from burning fossil fuels, and they estimate there are now more than 400 dead zones along 95,000 square miles of the seas — an area more than half the size of California...
http://tinyurl.com/5bfmo9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dead+zones
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Leake
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052008EA.shtml
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Scientists: Ocean dead zones on the rise at startling rate
San Francisco Chronicle
08/14/08
Dead zones where fish and most marine life can no longer survive are spreading across the continental shelves of the world’s oceans at an alarming rate as oxygen vanishes from coastal waters, scientists reported today. The scientists place the problem on runoff of chemical fertilizers in rivers and fallout from burning fossil fuels, and they estimate there are now more than 400 dead zones along 95,000 square miles of the seas — an area more than half the size of California...
http://tinyurl.com/5bfmo9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dead+zones
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Leake
rudkla - 21. Mai, 09:34
