The poor peasants with small farms were often short of massive dead stocks and livestock because of the shortage of money, and they usually had to buy and use stocks in joint venture.

Massive releases of methane from arctic seafloors could create oxygen-poor dead zones, acidify the seas and disrupt ecosystems in broad parts of the northern oceans, new preliminary analyses suggest.

In the aftermath of a massive bloom, dead phytoplankton sink to the ocean or lake floor.