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Growing Ocean Dead Zones Leave Fish Gasping

Barracuda shoal, central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Credit: Tom Weilenmann

05/03/2008 "Dead zones" containing too little oxygen for fish to breathe are growing as global temperatures increase.
From: New Scientist

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Related: [Climate Change] [Fisheries]

Image: Barracuda shoal, central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Credit: Tom Weilenmann

Coping at land�s end

05/01/2008 Environmental activist Sunita Narain offers a glimpse of what the future holds for coastal towns and villages as sea waters rise at a high rate. Climate change, rising salinity in waters and intense winds are eroding and depressing land at the same time in the Sunderbans, leaving people with no ways to survival.

Image: Sunita Narain