Reoxygenating oceans: startups lead the way in Baltic Sea
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Paris: European scientists have teamed up with two startups in a pioneering experiment to tackle one of the major problems facing sea life the depl...
Paris: European scientists have teamed up with two startups in a pioneering experiment to tackle one of the major problems facing sea life -- the depletion of oxygen in the ocean, causing the disappearance of fish and marine biodiversity.
Ocean deoxygenation is one of the issues on the agenda at the UN COP summit on biodiversity, opening on October 21 in Columbia.
Researchers from Stockholm University in Sweden, the French industrial company Lhyfe, and a Finnish startup Flexens are working on a pilot experiment to reoxygenate the Baltic Sea by producing hydrogen at sea.
The BOxHy project is seeking an overall solution to the asphyxiation that threatens a sea bordering nine northern European countries.
The oxygen dissolved in the oceans is essential to sustaining sea life as underwater organisms have no chance of surviving without it, scientists say.
