Earth's Water Is Rapidly Losing Oxygen, and the Danger Is Huge
Scientists warn of rapid oxygen loss in Earth's water bodies, endangering aquatic ecosystems vital for food and income. Urgent global action, including monitoring and policy changes, is crucial to combat deoxygenation.
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Scientists are warning that Earth's water bodies are rapidly losing oxygen, posing a significant threat to aquatic ecosystems crucial for human food and income. The decline in dissolved oxygen levels is attributed to factors like warmer waters holding less oxygen and excessive nutrient runoff fueling algal blooms. A team of experts is advocating for aquatic deoxygenation to be recognized as a planetary boundary, alongside other critical global thresholds. They emphasize the need for global monitoring, research, and policy actions to mitigate deoxygenation's adverse effects. Suggestions include reducing greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient runoff to slow down or reverse the oxygen decline. The call for expanding the planetary boundaries framework aims to focus efforts on addressing this pressing environmental issue. The study was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, highlighting the urgency of addressing deoxygenation to safeguard Earth's ecological and social systems.
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3 commentsI was going swimming in the local sewage river, the river thames.
I shall give that a miss now and install some extra oxygen cylinders in my undergroud fallout shelter.
Just when you think your winning and turning the tide against compelete world wide destruction something like this comes along.
Trouble (trouble and strife) will not be pleased
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