New calculations from DMI show that marine heat waves will become the norm. That will worsen oxygen depletion unless Denmark cuts agricultural nitrogen emissions even further, researchers and a think tank warn.
Denmark will need to cut nitrogen emissions, chiefly from agriculture, far more than envisioned in the fertilization law that, despite major protests, was passed by a broad majority in Parliament last week.
Temperatures in Danish seas will keep rising, new calculations from the Danish Meteorological Institute, DMI, show. That makes the waters far more sensitive to excess fertilizer running off fields.
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