The global energy transition offers new options for mitigation of coastal hypoxia: Do we know enough?

Glob Chang Biol. 2024 Mar;30(3):e17228. doi: 10.1111/gcb.17228.

Abstract

The mitigation of climate change and pollution-related hypoxia and anoxia is a growing challenge for coastal communities. Known ocean conservation measures do not show the desired fast results counteracting deoxygenation. The new infrastructure related to the coastal production of renewable energies linked to the production of green hydrogen can provide new possibilities of artificial ocean reoxygenation to mitigate coastal hypoxia, but has to be treated urgently and seriously from different scientific, engineering and socio-economic angles.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Climate Change*
  • Ecosystem*
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Humans
  • Hypoxia