• Climate, Featured, News, Oceans
• Featured, ocean health, ocean oxygen, ocean warming
• April 29, 2016

Ocean breathing From the shallows down to its yawning depths, the ocean gets its oxygen from the surface, supplied either by the atmosphere or from the release of oxygen in phytoplankton through photosynthesis. Scientists have long known that one expected consequence from a warming climate is a gradual drop in the amount of oxygen dissolved into ocean waters as they absorb extra …