{"article":{"id":194445,"heading":"Signs of Massive Oceanic Disruption - New Research","author":"reposted","created":"2007-03-02 20:46:48","modified":"2007-03-02 20:46:48","last_modified":"Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:46:48","article":"

Dead zones in the ocean are increasing in size

and numbers. Larger than Rhode Island, areas

of low to zero oxygen are killing everything in the

water and consequently everything that feeds from

the water.

\"What's catching us by surprise is the rate at

which warming is hitting us. And, of course, how

fast the ocean has changed -- that is what amazes me.\"

...these \"dead zones,\" which suffocate crabs, fish, sea

stars, and anemones on the ocean floor, have continued,

with 2006 now on the books as the largest, most severe

and longest lasting dead zone on record for the west coast.

\"It was unlike anything that we've measured along the Oregon

coast in the past five decades,\" says Francis Chan of Oregon

State University.

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