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Oxygen-starved oceans rapidly dying
Jun 25th, 2008 by Administrator |

Canberra Times: The world’s coastal oceans are in crisis, with oxygen-starved ”dead zones” increasing by a third in just two years as global temperatures increase with climate change, according to the International Whaling Commission’s latest scientific report. Dead zones, caused by over-enrichment of waters by nutrients from run-off, sewerage and warming waters, represent ”the worst-case scenario for coastal biodiversity” and are the ‘’severest form” of ocean habitat degradation, the report …

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