科技英语海洋死区.pptVIP

* * Over the past two or three decades, scientists have noticed that vast stretches of coastal waters are turning into dead zones — patches of seabed so low of oxygen that few creatures can survive there. In 2004, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) took stock of估量，观察 the phenomenon — which is caused in large part by agricultural runoff — and pronounced it one of the biggest environmental problems of the 21st century. Two years later it noted that the number of identified dead zones, some of which cover thousands of square miles, had climbed from 150 to 200. Robert Diaz, an ecologist