Oops… ‘scientists’ overlooked effect of ‘dead zones’ on coral reefs

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… they suspected it was caused by a dead zone–a low-oxygen area that snuffs out marine life–rather than by ocean warming or acidification…
The team thinks that such dead zones may be common in the tropics but have gone largely unreported, simply because scientists never looked… Based on our analyses, we think dead zones may be underreported by an order of magnitude…

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March 21, 2017 at 04:41AM