Dead zones in the ocean are caused by low levels of oxygen, and said low levels of oxygen are caused by increased amounts of chemicals in the water, most often fertilizers. Air pollution is often a factor. By now, I’m pretty sure you can see where I’m going with this: dead zones are on the rise.
But not just one the rise. Seriously very much so on the rise. In fact, the number of dead zones has roughly doubled every decade since the 1960’s, according to a Washington Post report. In turn, these dead zones are killing all sorts of fish and crab and marine life that serve as the bottom of the food chain.
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To celebrate Earth Day, The Disney Company is really raising the bar and announced today the creation of its own studio, Disneynature, to produce nature documentaries.
The Discovery Channel, which helped bring you the almost-too-awesome Planet Earth and Blue Planet mega-epics, has announced that June 4 will be the launch date for a new television channel, Planet Green. We can assume that the channel’s name gives a pretty good description of what it’s all about. At takepart we’ve already told you that Adrian Grenier, the dude from Entourage who isn’t the brother of the dude from The Outsiders, is 