Many species of marine life are being threatened by global warming and nutrient pollution, according to a report released by a conservation group at the UN climate change conference in Madrid, the Euro News website reports today (December 8, 2019).
The study -- the biggest such survey ever undertaken -- found that 700 ocean sites are suffering from low oxygen levels compared to just 45 in the 1960s, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said.
"We are now seeing increasingly low levels of dissolved oxygen across large areas of the open ocean," said Dan Laffoley, a co-editor of the report and senior advisor in marine science at IUCN.
"This is perhaps the ultimate wake-up call from the uncontrolled experiment humanity is unleashing on the world's ocean as carbon emissions continue to increase."
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