Runaway carbon emissions threaten two-thirds of the Earth's oxygen supply

  As the world struggles to find effective ways to limit carbon emissions and slow global warming, a recent study has found that the stakes may be higher than anyone has realized. According to Sergi Petrovskii, an applied mathematics professor at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, an unchecked rise in global temperatures could end up drastically reducing the amount of breathable oxygen in the planet's atmosphere, threatening life on Earth as we know it.   In...

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