The World's Lakes are Rapidly Losing Oxygen
The World’s Lakes are Rapidly Losing Oxygen Image Credit: Shutterstock.com / Yevhenii Chulovskyi A new study examines surveys of lakes conducted over the past eighty years finding freshwater bodies are losing dissolved oxygen more quickly than the oceans. Earth’s temperate freshwater lakes are losing oxygen much more quickly than its oceans, new research has revealed. The trend is being driven predominantly by climate change and threatens not only our supply of clean drinking water but also the biodiversity of some of the planet’s most beautiful ecosystems. In fact, though freshwater l...
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