“Underwater video frame of the sea floor in the Western Baltic covered with dead or dying crabs, fish and clams killed by oxygen depletion”; Photo via Wikipedia
It’s not breaking news – we’ve been talking about the dead zones of our oceans expanding for some time – but it’s well worth listening to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute when they tell us that the dead zones are likely to grow as our climate changes. The problem is that each contribute to the other.
Researchers Peter Brewer and Edward Peltzer published an article in Science entitled “Perspective” that illustrates how rising CO2 levels can exaggerate the effects low oxygen levels can have on sea animals, and therefore on dead zones.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/climate-change-causing-ocean-dead-zones-to-grow.php
