Sentences with phrase «currently ocean oxygen»

Currently ocean oxygen measurements are relatively sparse.

Not exact matches

The researchers say the processes identified in the cave will help them to better understand what is happening in sunken ecosystems around the globe, including parts of the ocean that are currently being stripped of oxygen — a major concern to marine scientists working in the field.

In fact, declining oxygen concentrations in the ocean's interior are currently found to be a near - ubiquitous phenomenon for which the term ocean deoxygenation has been proposed.

While these dead zones are often caused by fertilizer runoff currently, it seems the decreasing ability of the oceans to hold dissolved oxygen with continued warming will increasingly become a problem for marine ecosystems and fisheries in the coming decades.

of the oxygen that's currently being put into the atmosphere by ocean organisms, we may not manage to burn all that coal that fast.