In a previous blog, we talked about the depth of the ocean http://wp.me/p5MgcM-InC. Since the ocean is on average 3 miles deep, it may not surprise you that the water ...

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

In the last 50 years, oxygen-deficient zones in the open ocean have increased. Scientists have attributed this development to rising global temperatures: Less oxygen dissolves in warmer water, and the ...

Low-oxygen "dead zones" in the ocean could expand significantly over the next century, according to marine chemists. These predictions are based on the fact that, as more and more carbon dioxide ...

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More than half a century ago, scientists realized there was something wrong in the Gulf of Oman, part of the Arabian Sea: There wasn't enough oxygen in the water, which means fish were struggling to ...

A new University of Miami study has linked red tides to ocean dead zones. New research documenting a grim connection between toxic red tides and ocean dead zones comes with an usual annotation: a poem ...

An algae bloom off the coast of Maryland. Such blooms help create low-oxygen areas called dead zones as the algae respire or decompose. Chuck Gallegos, with aerial support from LightHawk Nearly all ...