Sunday, January 7, 2018

Oxygen Depletion in the Oceans

This can't be good:

"The oxygen content of the open ocean and coastal waters has been declining for at least the past half-century, largely because of human activities that have increased global temperatures and nutrients discharged to coastal waters. These changes have accelerated consumption of oxygen by microbial respiration, reduced solubility of oxygen in water, and reduced the rate of oxygen resupply from the atmosphere to the ocean interior, with a wide range of biological and ecological consequences."

From Science Magazine 

2 comments:

B. said...

Something many don't realize is that most—70 percent—of the oxygen there is comes from the oceans.

Marie Snyder said...

Yup , everyone thinks it's all about the trees- if the oceans die, then so do we.