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The ocean is losing its breath – and climate change is making it worse

  • Written by Karin Limburg, Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
imageA massive fish die-off occurred in Redondo Beach, California in 2011 caused by oxygen-starved fish.seadigs/flickr, CC BY-NC

Global climate change produces many effects – warming air energizes the atmosphere and intensifies storms; warmer water expands and raises sea level; storage of more carbon dioxide in the oceans is acidifying large...

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