Ocean 'dead zones' now top 400, experts find

[Frankie]

This map compares the location of 400 dead zones (black dots) with humanity's footprint — ranging from low population density in green to high density in darker colors.

Excerpt:
WASHINGTON - Like a chronic disease wasting a body, ocean "dead zones" with too little oxygen for marine life are spreading around the globe, researchers reported Thursday.The experts counted 405 dead zones in 2007 — a third more than their 1995 survey.
"The number of dead zones has approximately doubled each decade since the 1960s," the researchers wrote in the journal Science.



Ocean 'dead zones' now top 400 - World environment - MSNBC.com

[SeahorseBT]

What a shame. We are really screwing up the planet.

[Frankie]

No doubt Blake. Hence my sig....

[slakker]

Yep.. one theory for the permian extinction, the most massive in history contibuted by low oxygen water... but that wasn't man made, none of us around back then.

[Frankie]

Who needs a meteorite when we can do it ourselves. Very interesting that you brought that up slakker. I have been reading up on what will happen if all the phytoplankton was to die off. We would all suffocate. It was recently on NG and sparked the interest in me. But that was caused by a meteorite the size of SC slamming into the earth. Today were doing it just driving to work

[slakker]

I think the Cretaceous was the meteor, the Permian was the Siberian Trap... either way, it seems like now it's too many people, too little space...

[Frankie]

What do I know, I'm from Credence error.
Thanks for the correction

[slakker]

I only know because of Nova Now! hahahahaha... watched a show on it yesterday where they showed some lake in up state New York is so deprived of oxygen that at 90 ft depth the cyano algae was so bad it was toxic with hydrogen sulfide... the speculate that is the earths oceans warmed enough, it's oxygen holding capacity will decrease and lead to an global bloom...

[Frankie]

I saw that one. Scary stuff.