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The American Geophysical Union reports

AN EXPANSION OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE WOULD FURTHER STRESS COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT SPECIES AND ECOSYSTEMS

For thousands of kilometers along the western coasts of the Americas, low-oxygen waters known as oxygen minimum zones stretch out into the Pacific. In part due to climate change, this oxygen-starved region is likely to get wider and deeper, expanding by millions of cubic kilometers by the end of the century, models in a new study predict. Larger oxygen minimum zones threaten marine ecosystems and species, along with the industries that depend on them.

Read more at Climate change will cause Pacific’s low-oxygen zone to expand even more by 2100 – AGU Newsroom