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Global warming blamed for Earth’s largest mass extinction

The industrial burning of fossil fuels is adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, trapping heat near the planet's surface and warming the oceans. A major effect of warming is to reduce the amount of dissolved oxygen (O2) found in the sea. This effect arises for... click to read more

Justin Penn | PhD student at University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, USA

global warming

extinction

ocean hypoxia

ecophysiology

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Oct 28, 2019

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