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21% of the ocean is getting darker?!and 9% of it, a region the size of the ENTIRE content of Africa, has lost 50/200 meters of its life-bearing photic zone where 90% of marine life lives? :0 because of algal blooms? Fascinating! Had fun with this one!! Post your scicomm vids in the /science channel all!! :)

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Here’s an article (written by the host university of the study!!): https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/is-the-ocean-getting-darker The study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.70227 Hope y’all enjoy!!

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What’s the driver, ocean temps? Dissolved O2, increased sunlight/nutrients?

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Oh wow, I learned something new today 🙏 I always knew pollution was an issue, but I mostly thought about the viral videos like straws stuck in animals or plastic making it harder for them to swim. But darkening the ocean? That’s wild. Never realized pollution blocks sunlight and disrupt entire ecosystems. It’s deeper than I thought, literally. Someone needs to show this to the politicians because plastic straws are apparently back 😒

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Wonder how it will affect things like marine snow and creatures that feed on it? 🤔

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Yeah this has been happening in estuaries for decades. I watched the Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem change dramatically due to pollutants in runoff from agricultural fertilizers and other soaps & pollutants. In the 80s and 90s the crab catches dried up a lot. (yup, algal blooms) And the island where I went to study the Chesapeake was so subject to rising water that it became unsafe; in the mid 2000s, the learning center had to close for good.

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Won’t the sediment runoff eventually settle on the ocean floor? Thus clearing up the photic zone? This assumes that runoff is diminished or stopped.

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Whole parts of the ocean going dark like that? Appreciate the breakdown, gonna keep an eye on /science for more gems like this 💜

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This is terrifying!!! We are killing our planet 😕😕

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Wild. Thanks for sharing

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I'm not sure there's any way of stopping the water from getting darker though

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Impressive, I enjoyed it and learned so much!

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