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Volcanic eruptions once caused mass extinctions in the oceans – could climate change do the same?

  • Written by Jeremy D. Owens, Assistant Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University
Volcanic eruptions once caused mass extinctions in the oceans – could climate change do the same?Surgeonfish on a reef in the Maldives. Uxbona/Wikimedia, CC BY

All animals, whether they live on land or in the water, require oxygen to breathe. But today the world’s oceans are losing oxygen, due to a combination of rising temperatures and changing ocean currents. Both factors are driven by human-induced climate change.

This process has the...

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