News Headline
Previous climatic shifts deprived oceans of oxygen
Source
United Press International (UPI)
Publication Date
2015-01-30
DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Dead zones -- massive stratified columns of oxygen-deprived water -- could become the new normal in oceans around the world as global temperatures continue to rise. New research, published this week in the journal PLOS ONE, links ancient climate change to dead zone expansion.