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 ...

The upper panel illustrates how ENSO influences the equatorial Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and how these two ocean basins in turn feed back to ENSO. On the right side of the panel, the schematic shows ...

Oxygen-starved ocean dead zones may be more widespread than thought. Spanish researchers found that many species die off at oxygen levels well above what is now considered uninhabitable. The new study ...

A N.C. State University study used fossilized plankton and computer modeling to determine where the ocean had low oxygen levels during a warm period millions of years ago compared to now. It found ...

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In recent years, massive fertilizer runoff from big farms has depleted oxygen in parts of the ocean, choking off life in these aptly-named dead zones. That much is well known and widely studied. But ...

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 ...

"Great step in raising awareness." Officials debate future plans for ocean 'twilight zone': 'We see great potential' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Algal blooms, like this one in the South Atlantic Ocean, draw oxygen out of water. Our oceans are running out of air. A new report, published this week, says that ocean dead zones—regions starved of ...