oxygen minimum zone

Global Warming, a Dead Zone and Mysterious Bacteria

A submerged carrousel of collector tubes begins its descent to the oxygen minimum zone off of Mexico's Pacific coast. Credit: Dr. Heather Olins
Aug 03, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
While global warming shrinks ice caps, it's expanding “oxygen minimum zones,” where newly discovered bacteria are depleting waters of nitrogen, a nutrient essential to life. This could be creating imbalances.
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