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 ...

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 ...

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One of Earth’s largest habitats could see its rich diversity of life reduced by the end of the century due to the climate crisis. The ocean’s mesopelagic zone, also called the “twilight zone,” is ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than one-fifth of the global ocean—an area spanning more than 75 million sq km—has been the subject of ocean darkening over the past two decades, according to new research. Ocean darkening occurs ...

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 ...