Every summer for the past nine years, water with lethally low concentrations of oxygen has appeared off the Oregon coast. The hypoxia may be a sign of things to come elsewhere, finds Virginia Gewin.
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Virginia Gewin is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon.
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Gewin, V. Oceanography: Dead in the water. Nature 466, 812–814 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466812a
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