Green Options » lack of oxygen http://greenoptions.com/tag/lack-of-oxygen Posts tagged 'lack of oxygen' Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:25:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Baltic Sea “Dying” from Lack of Oxygen http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/06/24/baltic-sea-dying-from-lack-of-oxygen/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/06/24/baltic-sea-dying-from-lack-of-oxygen/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:25:54 +0000 Max Lindberg http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/06/24/baltic-sea-dying-from-lack-of-oxygen/ Baltic Sea

It’s not only the Gulf of Mexico that’s suffering from “dead zones” caused by  excess nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus used as fertilizers.

Marine dead zones are spreading in the Baltic sea, and that could cause the entire ecosystem to collapse for lack of oxygen.  Dire warnings from Lasse Gustavsson, Swedish head of the World Wildlife Funds branch in Sweden.

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