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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Single Answer
ID: #4643
Short
Marlin
Transcript:
About ten years ago, a specialist in fish science found that blue marlin off the south-eastern United States would dive a half-mile deep when chasing prey, but the same species living off the coast of Costa Rica and Guatemala stayed near the surface. What was preventing these expert divers from diving? It turns out that the marlin near Central America wouldn't dive deep because they were avoiding a large area of water that contained too little oxygen to keep them alive. The discovery is an example of the many ways sea life is already changing in response to a new reality: climate change is causing reduced oxygen levels in marine waters. Denise Breitburg, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Research Center, states, 'This is a global problem, and global warming is making it worse. It requires global solutions.'
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