Ocean's harmful low-oxygen zones growing, are sensitive to small changes in climate. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 06 / 110617110713.htm ...

Low-oxygen zones where large ocean species cannot live have increased by close to 5.2 million square kilometers since the 1960s, the team found.

A low-oxygen area of the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Africa is broader than the continental United States, and has grown 15 percent since the 1960s. In fact, ...

For example, in low-oxygen regions of the eastern Pacific and northern Indian Ocean, only specialized microbes and organisms with a slow metabolism — such as jellyfish — can survive. The past oxygen ...

But all that mixing also stirs up low-oxygen zones deep in the water, bringing them much nearer the surface than usual, threatening organisms that need higher oxygen concentrations to survive.

More information: N. N. Duprey et al, Decadal oscillations in the ocean's largest oxygen-deficient zone, Science (2024). DOI: ...

Climate change is causing low-oxygen levels in Pacific Northwest ocean, report says. By Roman Battaglia (JPR) June 16, 2024 1 p.m.

Low oxygen levels affect almost everything across the board, including fish growth, reproduction, activity levels, and outright survival. A host of genetic and metabolic changes can help fish ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Low oxygen conditions that pose a significant threat to marine life are widespread and increasing in coastal Pacific Northwest ocean waters as the climate warms, a new ...

As the climate warms, there is major concern that Earth's ocean will lose oxygen. A study published in Geophysical Research Letters by oceanographers at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa ...

As ocean oxygen levels dip, ... 2021-2030 — reports that since the 1960s, the area of low-oxygen water in the open ocean has increased by 1.7 million square miles.

Hurricanes stir deep ocean layers, bringing nutrients and low-oxygen zones to surface, study finds. by Lorena Anderson, University of California - Merced ...