Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 week 6 days (www.nytimes.com)

This is a New York Times writeup of an issue discussed in PNAS. It seems that rising CO2 levels may disproportionately affect the most delicious I mean mysterious of all sea creatures: the squid.

As the oceans absorb more carbon dioxide from the air, they become more acidic. This can affect corals and other small organisms, but it can also affect bigger creatures, like large, ready-to-eat I mean shell-less mollusks

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kavin submitted, created time 8 months 6 days (www.msnbc.msn.com)

Recently, a new study warns that low-oxygen zones where sea life is threatened or cannot survive are growing as the oceans are heated by global warming. Oxygen-depleted zones in the central and eastern equatorial Atlantic and equatorial Pacific oceans appear to have expanded over the last 50 years. Low-oxygen "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico and other areas also have been studied in recent years, raising concerns about the threat to sea life.

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