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Published online 4 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070101-5
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Hot waters make it hard for fish to breathe
Climate change causes eelpout population to crash from suffocation.
The warming of the oceans is having a cruel effect on some fish: they can't breathe fast enough to survive in a hotter home.
Hans Pörtner and Rainer Knust from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, studied the viviparous eelpout (Zoarces viviparus), a fish that lives in the northern Wadden Sea.
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