Not exact matches
The traditional explanation has been that
low -
oxygen conditions cause the body to build new red blood cells,
making it easier to supply
oxygen to muscles and vital organs.
The most recent finding: Even short exposures to high elevation can unleash a complex cascade of changes within red blood cells that
make it easier for them to cope with
low -
oxygen conditions.
«Also, we feel that if we can understand how fish coped with
low -
oxygen, high CO2, acidic waters in the past, it will give us some insight into how they might cope with man -
made climate change which appears to be giving rise to such
conditions again,» Dr Rummer says.
These
low oxygen levels (called ocean anoxia) help trigger the
conditions needed for
making fossil fuels like oil and coal in the first place.
In fact, certain of TEPCO's actions in the aftermath of the explosions have been confused and, some might opine, lacking discipline of purpose to the extent that expedient decisions have been
made without proper forethought and judiciousness to avoid knock - on consequences: for example, the injection of seawater may have resulted in salt deposits sufficient to foul cooling flows in the
lower regions of the RPV [reactor pressure vessel]; the liberation of hydrogen from seawater is more rampant than from freshwater and radiolysis of
oxygen from the cooling water could provide stoichiometric
conditions and ignition with hydrogen in the absence of air in the containments; and the latest and most recent announcement to deploy a nitrogen purge to the Unit 1 reactor seems yet another ill - explained and unjustified desperate measure».