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Polluted Dust Can Impact Ocean Life Thousands of Miles Away, Study Says

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Taka Ito
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536351
May 16, 2016

A new modeling study conducted by researchers in Georgia Tech shows that for decades, air pollution drifting from East Asia out over the world’s largest ocean has contributed to oxygen levels falling in tropical waters thousands of miles away.

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