Sentence examples for oceans of oxygen from inspiring English sources

Global warming robbed the oceans of oxygen, they say, putting many species under so much stress that they died off.

But an equally troubling impact of climate change is that it is beginning to rob the oceans of oxygen.

That's because methane and other pollutants spewing from the BP disaster site could have the same effect of boosting ocean microbes that rob the ocean of oxygen.

The leading culprit is thought to be mega-farms in the Midwest, whose nitrate-filled fertilizers run off into the Mississippi River and spill into the Gulf, where they feed massive algae blooms that starve the ocean of oxygen when they decompose (a process known as hypoxia).

Then soon after the ice melted leaving the oceans starved of oxygen.

"We don't exactly know what the relation was between the eruption of the Siberian Traps, the production of CO2, global warming and the oceans being starved of oxygen – but we believe there was a relationship," she said.

In the world's oceans, the concentration of oxygen dissolved in the water changes in different regions and at different depths.

Immediately after the impact, certain areas of the ocean were devoid of oxygen and hostile to most algae, but close to the continent, microbial life was inhibited for only a relatively short period: in probably less than 100 years, algal productivity showed the first signs of recovery.

Rising air temperatures are changing wind patterns, which is a major cause of more than 400 ocean "dead zones" devoid of oxygen and sea life.

Even if humans can rein in the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content by the end of this century, large zones in the oceans could remain depleted of oxygen for hundreds or even thousands of years, researchers reveal.

We find a positive sulphur isotope excursion in phase with the SPICE, a large and rapid excursion in the marine carbon isotope record, which is thought to be indicative of a global carbon cycle perturbation… These results identify the SPICE interval as the best characterized ocean anoxic event in the preMesozoic ocean and an extreme example of oxygen deficiency in the later Cambrian ocean.