4 January 2018 /

The Guardian / Damian Carrington

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Oceans suffocating as huge dead zones quadruple since 1950

Temuco, La Araucanía, Chile

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Areas starved of oxygen in open ocean and by coasts have soared in recent decades, risking dire consequences for marine life and humanity

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A fisherman on a beach in Temuco, Chile that is blanketed with dead sardines, a result of algal blooms that suck oxygen out of the water.

Photograph: Felix Marquez/AP