Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Possible Extinction Events Being Assessed

New from Australia about increasing stresses on the environment. A good read.

Amplify’d from www.abc.net.au

More than 400 ocean dead zones - areas so low in oxygen that sea life cannot survive - have been reported by oceanographers around the world between 2000 and 2008.


That is compared with 300 in the 1990s and 120 in the 1980s.

Read more at www.abc.net.au
 

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