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LSU Professor: UN Climate Change Conference Report Foretells Oxygen Loss in the World's Oceans

Oxygen loss in the world's oceans, driven by climate change and nutrient pollution, is increasingly threatening fish species and disrupting ecosystems, according to a new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, released in December 2019 at the UN Climate Change conference in Madrid. LSU expert Nancy Rabalais, a professor in the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, contributed to sections of the report concerning nutrient pollution. She has 34 years of experience studying deoxygenation in the Gulf of Mexico with Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, and three years ago she also joined LSU's College of the Coast & Environment.